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Idk with the mountainous terrain of my state its fine. It covers the entire city with all the relays we have and they are solar powered. I will say you are right about the security. Its literally only safe because no one knows about it.
I live in an East coast pine forest where the average urethra has longer range than sub-watt UHF. What range testing I've done with the two nodes I own shows I can get about 3 blocks with one of my nodes on my roof. Around here, you'd need adoption at a truly impossible scale to get any use out of LoRa as an infrastructure protocol.
I know of three projects that use LoRa as the carrier technology: Meshtastic, Meshcore and even Reticulum (which isn't strictly LoRa but I've seen it extended across LoRa). Meshtastic is probably the worst, and most popular, of the lot.
We really fucked up letting corporations control the internet.