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I wonder how many people are still actively using dialup and why. Frankly I cannot think of a single usecase.

ivape 1y ago
The thing is dial-up was transmitting data via sound. It would be kind of interesting if that ever made a comeback for encryption purposes. Maybe not exactly through wires and modem, but I could see a universe where messages are sent via videos that can only be decoded by certain people that are recording the audio. I don't know why we would do that though. Maybe someone else can riff off this idea.
- Pigalowda 1y ago
  Maybe during electronic countermeasures? Only way to transmit information is through sound when the EM bandwidth is being disrupted.
nemomarx 1y ago
from the last thread, there are areas that had phone lines but never DSL or cable, so probably that and legacy customers using the other aol services
aspenmayer 1y ago
I remember seeing graffiti with DNS servers to get around DNS based redirects affecting social media sites. https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/212bmf/turks_graffiti_8888_and_8844_googles_public_dns/ https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/212bmf/turks_gra... | https://archive.is/0LY26 https://archive.is/0LY26 I also remember hearing about dial-up access being used during the internet shutdown in Egypt, but I don’t know how widespread that info was distributed or used within the country at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-anniversary-when-egypt-cut-the-internet https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-ann... | https://archive.is/W2Tqa https://archive.is/W2Tqa Those are legitimate use cases but that was also ~15 years ago. The wiki that is referenced in the article sounds interesting but I don’t know much about this group or its motivations, but here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix https://archive.ph/2012.07.16-043637/http://werebuild.telecomix.org/wiki/Main_Page https://archive.ph/2012.07.16-043637/http://werebuild.teleco...

The thing is dial-up was transmitting data via sound. It would be kind of interesting if that ever made a comeback for encryption purposes. Maybe not exactly through wires and modem, but I could see a universe where messages are sent via videos that can only be decoded by certain people that are recording the audio. I don't know why we would do that though. Maybe someone else can riff off this idea.

Pigalowda 1y ago
Maybe during electronic countermeasures? Only way to transmit information is through sound when the EM bandwidth is being disrupted.

nemomarx 1y ago

from the last thread, there are areas that had phone lines but never DSL or cable, so probably that and legacy customers using the other aol services

aspenmayer 1y ago

I remember seeing graffiti with DNS servers to get around DNS based redirects affecting social media sites. https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/212bmf/turks_graffiti_8888_and_8844_googles_public_dns/ https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/212bmf/turks_gra... | https://archive.is/0LY26 https://archive.is/0LY26 I also remember hearing about dial-up access being used during the internet shutdown in Egypt, but I don’t know how widespread that info was distributed or used within the country at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Egypt https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-anniversary-when-egypt-cut-the-internet https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/1/25/arab-spring-ann... | https://archive.is/W2Tqa https://archive.is/W2Tqa Those are legitimate use cases but that was also ~15 years ago. The wiki that is referenced in the article sounds interesting but I don’t know much about this group or its motivations, but here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix https://archive.ph/2012.07.16-043637/http://werebuild.telecomix.org/wiki/Main_Page https://archive.ph/2012.07.16-043637/http://werebuild.teleco...