Re: Raspberry Pi   
     By: iretch to All on Wed Jan 11 2012 03:07 am   
      
    > Has anyone thought about buying several raspberry pi devices ($25 arm linux   
    > computers) and having them stragically placed around the globe running as   
    > bbs nodes for when Obama's new SOPA law tries to shut down free speech?   
    > This is the s the only way we can ensure communication remains free as the   
    > expansion of powerline broadband is designed to minimize the efforts of ham   
    > operators   
      
   Well, I hadn't thought about that idea exactly, but I have done a lot of   
   thinking about uses for the Raspberry Pi, as well as about mesh network and   
   other solutions to government/corporate censorship of the Internet (including a   
   packet radio FTN...).  I guess I'm curious as to how you propose to actually   
   put in the networking infrastructure...packet radio seems a bit cumbersome...    
   Just pop them on the Internet and use SSH with a fairly locked down   
   configuration?  Wireless mesh?  There seem to be scaling problems with just   
   about every solution I've seen thus far, ESPECIALLY with the lack of POTS   
   telephone lines these days...   
      
   cykros   
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