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October 3
4 | 3.10.2012 | 7 months ago |

The real LOSS alternative: an afterthought - Charlie's Diary

Every time Charlie Stross touches a keyboard, pure genius is puked through the intertubes (well, his books are good but not that great, it’s his blog that’s a must-read).

Inspired by ideas of having flying Piratebay servers, he suggested putting a small computer inside a power splitter and insert it into walls of shops and public areas all around town. Most of these will have WiFi, some open, some closed. These plugs could essentially create a whispernet where you are nearly untraceable, and which is cheap to create. Any traffic can be routed through these, or it can provide encrypted communication for hackers on the go (within the radius).

Worst case is, someone finds it and you lost a $50 investment…
  1. worsethandetroit reblogged this from ripperdoc and added:
    Of course if you were a bit more mischievously minded, you could install a Newstweek box instead…
  2. hard-wired-info reblogged this from ripperdoc and added:
    You can’t stop the net from growing. Well, unless you whack all power out, and then it’ll be back to the good old Dark...
  3. cruisingwithgunhead said: Secret computers scattered throughout the city… romantic somehow.
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