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bombcar a day ago

The key is that the 99% can transfer data and such internally to the country; the 0.1% can then leak it out.

esafak a day ago | parent | next [-]

How effectively can they share data domestically during blackouts?

octoberfranklin a day ago | parent [-]

Carrier pigeons.

And hamsters.

Don't underestimate the hamsters.

esafak a day ago | parent [-]

Especially ones in a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

But seriously?

bombcar a day ago | parent [-]

There are mesh networks, but even so IPv4 isn't down, and people can share files p2p.

	▲	adamfisk a day ago \| parent [-]
		Theoretically this is true, but in practice it's not. Most p2p services rely on the global internet in some way. The BitTorrent DHT, for example, is unlikely so self-heal in the event of a completely inaccessible global internet. Things like HolePunch have a lot of potential here, but you'd need an Iran-only DHT, and it's just not deployed at scale.

jszymborski a day ago | parent | prev [-]

but, regrettably, at a trickle