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> This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war. [...] These Low Orbit Server Stations (LO
by kahawe 15y ago
> This way our machines will have to be shut down with aeroplanes in order to shut down the system. A real act of war. [...] 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.
Am I missing something here? Someone would just have to pull the plug on whatever "base station" these LOSS are connecting to and/or go right for the uplink to the "intarwebs" and take them off the web completely. If they could strong-arm the Swedish police amongst others into raiding the hosting facilities in the past, "coercing" cooperation from an up-stream ISP shouldn't be a problem?
- unreal37 15y agoThere is no ISP. These things would not need to be Internet connected. The entire Pirate Bay directory now fits in a few hundred MB. All it needs to do is transmit.
- kahawe 15y agoThat was my problem understanding it - because the original blog entry said: > 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. http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210 http://thepiratebay.se/blog/210
- sliverstorm 15y agoThe point is, "transmit? To where?". Unless these things make a WiFi mesh and you are in range, you would require some sort of gateway to access the data.
- simcop2387 15y agoIf they ever do get this going and it works (unlikely even if it isn't a joke), it could be a very interesting thing for doing freenet style things. No global IP to trace to and the pirate bay could end up completely anonymous.