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zenlan :coffefied: (zenlan@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 17:52:55 JST zenlan :coffefied:
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@scribe You've reminded me of a conf talk by a distinguished journalist who talked about "sneakernet" during the Occupy protests some years ago. It involved runners using NFC data transfer on mobiles to get video out to the media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
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  Sneakernet, also called sneaker net, is an informal term for the transfer of electronic information by physically moving media such as magnetic tape, floppy disks, optical discs, USB flash drives or external hard drives between computers, rather than transmitting it over a computer network. The term, a tongue-in-cheek play on net(work) as in Internet or Ethernet, refers to walking in sneakers as the transport mechanism. Alternative terms may be floppy net, train net, or pigeon net. Summary and background Sneakernets are in use throughout the computer world. A sneakernet may be used when computer networks are prohibitively expensive for the owner to maintain; in high-security environments where manual inspection (for re-classification of information) is necessary; where information needs to be shared between networks with different levels of security clearance; when data transfer is impractical due to bandwidth limitations; when a particular system is simply incompatible with the local network, unable to be connected, or when two systems...

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