<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>iphones are being used as reliable routers with 4g and wireless sharing failover so having background probe app , like twitter,email auto checking would be great</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>colin<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 29 Dec 2015, at 20:35, Micha Bailey <<a href="mailto:michabailey@gmail.com">michabailey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I would imagine that having probe apps on mobile devices would be very impractical in terms of battery usage, unreliable connections, the device itself not being on/connected 24/7, etc.<div>In addition, I believe it would not be possible on iOS. You can't really have an app like this running full-time in the background. Only certain categories of apps are allowed to do this (e.g. GPS turn-by-turn navigation and audio players), and I can't imagine anything like an Atlas Probe will make it through App Review.<br><br>On Tuesday, December 29, 2015, Colin Johnston <<a href="mailto:colinj@mx5.org.uk">colinj@mx5.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>iphone virtual app probe would be great as well :)</div><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 29 Dec 2015, at 19:49, Gil Bahat <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gil@magisto.com');" target="_blank">gil@magisto.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">We also support the idea of expanding the network. If it's done in a modular fashion, users can pick their desired veracity levels to the task at hand. we'd like to see more information on mobile data as network uses shift a lot to mobile and (for various reasons) it's very hard to get current probes on such networks and ultimately having an ATLAS-like app might be the only realistic way to go about it.<div><br><div>integration into open source platforms such as openwrt or the turris omnia would also be most welcome.<br><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Gil Bahat,</div></div></div><div>DevOps and Network Engineer,</div><div>Magisto Ltd.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Wilfried Woeber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','woeber@cc.univie.ac.at');" target="_blank">woeber@cc.univie.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Atlas Community!<br> <span><br> On 2015-12-21 12:02, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:<br> > Dear colleagues,<br> ><br> > Some of you have asked about Virtual Probes on this list.<br> <br> </span>Indeed :-)<br> <span><br> > Although we don't plan to make virtual probes available in 2016,<br> > we do plan to investigate this idea and develop some prototypes.<br> <br> </span>Fair enough.<br> <span><br> > Please find more details on RIPE Labs:<br> <br> </span>I'll try to put my thoughts into some well-structured words, over there.<br> I hope to succeed, but no premature promises yet...<br> <span><br> > <a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/exploring-the-idea-of-ripe-atlas-virtual-probes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/exploring-the-idea-of-ripe-atlas-virtual-probes</a><br> ><br> > Kind regards,<br> > Vesna Manojlovic<br> > RIPE NCC<br> <br> </span>All the best for (2015)++<br> <span><font color="#888888">Wilfried<br> <br> <br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br></div> </div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></body></html>