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I've always adored the cyberpunk aesthetic of surreptitiously passing SD cards around between people to transfer files, so I love looking at these sneakernet pr
by lexicality 1y ago
I've always adored the cyberpunk aesthetic of surreptitiously passing SD cards around between people to transfer files, so I love looking at these sneakernet projects.
I just pray that things will never get bad enough that I actually have to use things like this on a day to day basis...
- anthk 1y agoNot just under dictatorship. An attack on networking infra can yield very flakey connections.
- CJefferson 1y agoUnder dictatorships, you will be found guilty if you are found with an SD card full of encrypted files. While the encryption does protect your data, it definitely doesn't protect you. Probably hurts you, as people will start applying iron bars to find out how to uneceypt your data.
- danesparza 1y agoHidden volumes or steganography have been around for a while for the explicit purpose of 'plausible deniability': https://www.truecrypt.org https://www.truecrypt.org
- tekla 1y agoAnd I can say I'm carrying a deck of cards around because I really like playing solitaire in my free time, but its not going to stop the govt from beating me with the boot if they really want to.
- perching_aix 1y agoYes, it's just that if they really want to, even the entire deck of cards side of the story becomes irrelevant.
- DrillShopper 1y agohttps://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- lexicality 1y agoDictatorships don't need proof to beat, detain or kill you though. Having an encrypted SD card is bad, but so is looking suspicious, knowing someone suspicious, having the wrong shaped skull etc etc etc. As I said, I pray that I never have to live in such a society.