[liberationtech] Pirate Bay turns to drones
Bruce Potter at IRF
bpotter at irf.org
Fri Mar 23 11:31:04 PDT 2012
and the Radio Marti broadcasts into Cuba, using transmitters on
blimps, is like that . . . .
On Mar 23, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> US Airforce has played with drones and aerostats, as over-the-
> horizon IP routers, for years. Don't know what's in operational
> use, but google "airborne IP" and you'll find all kinds of
> interesting stuff. Not at all a ridiculous idea.
>
> David Johnson wrote:
>> It sounded ridiculous, but ideas can come from jokes.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, KheOps <kheops at ceops.eu <mailto:kheops at ceops.eu
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> This is a joke - at least according to tetsu0, one of the TPB
>> folks :)
>>
>> On 03/23/2012 04:44 PM, David Johnson wrote:
>> > http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210
>> >
>> >
>> > /TPB LOSS/
>> >
>> > /We were down a few hours earlier today. There's no need to
>> worry, we
>> > haven't been raided this time. We're only upgrading stuff since
>> we're
>> > still growing./
>> >
>> > /One of the technical things we always optimize is where to
>> put our
>> > front machines. They are the ones that re-direct your traffic
>> to a
>> > secret location. We have now decided to try to build something
>> > extraordinary./
>> >
>> > /With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching
>> cheap radio
>> > equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi
>> > <http://www.raspberrypi.org/>, we're going to experiment with
>> sending
>> > out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in
>> the air.
>> > This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes
>> in order
>> > to shut down the system. A real act of war./
>> >
>> > /We're just starting so we haven't figured everything out yet.
>> But we
>> > can't limit ourselves to hosting things just on land anymore.
>> These Low
>> > Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With
>> modern
>> > radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km
>> away. For
>> > the proxy system we're building, that's more than enough./
>> >
>> > /But when time comes we will host in all parts of the galaxy,
>> being true
>> > to our slogan of being the galaxy's most resilient system. And
>> all of
>> > the parts we'll use to build //that system on will be
>> downloadable./
>> >
>> >
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