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IP over Avian Carriers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.

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[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 2 points 2 years ago

The boxes of papers on an airplane seat in The Post come to mind. I’ve also seen encrypted hard drives being mailed to contractors with keys sent out-of-band afterwards.

There are a lot of good reasons to carry data around.