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Why don’t we put Tor nodes in space? Seems like a few hundred micro satellites could circumvent sovereignty this way.
by peytoncasper 3y ago
Why don’t we put Tor nodes in space?
Seems like a few hundred micro satellites could circumvent sovereignty this way.
- sunbum 3y agoHow would they get network? Ground stations would just blacklist them.
- wkat4242 3y agoGround stations aren't commodities. You'd need to build your own just like any existing sat network. I agree it's a pipe dream. Launch costs are too high and nobody will approve this.
- treyd 3y agoYou still need downlinks with this. You could have some base stations run by amateurs, but that paints a target on their backs in a similar way running a Tor node already does.
- ghaff 3y agoAs with Sealand/HavenCo and international waters/micronations more broadly. Even if no country with guns chooses to take direct action, it takes very little--if they care enough--to cut off supplies and any meaningful communications.
- mikae1 3y agoDoes anyone remember https://wired.com/2007/01/the-pirate-bay-2/ https://wired.com/2007/01/the-pirate-bay-2/ ?
- nickstinemates 3y agoYes, until recently I worked for one of the principals of Sealand. Small world.
- IshKebab 3y agoYou need approval to launch satellites. Plus a stupid amount of money.
- zer8k 3y agoIt would probably be easier to leave an exit node on a barge in international waters to be honest.
- ilyt 3y agoand provide internet to who ? Exit node still needs ISP to connect to.
- jeffbee 3y agoOnly 11-year-old Libertarians think this way. "Circumventing sovereignty" is the surest way to destruction. Anyone who stands outside the protection of a legitimate sovereign power will be immediately destroyed by a real country. If you fly your shit out in space and declare your satellites to be independent of any flag, I am sure that they will all promptly disappear due to mysterious causes. Likewise, if you believe that you will simply move to a remote floating platform where you declare independence, you will soon discover what the U.S. Navy is for.
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y agoFar from just 11-year old libertarians - virtually all Americans don't understand (or acknowledge the existence of) our empire. They think Epstein's private island really was private.
- tamimio 3y agoThey will most likely be owned by a company that still under a jurisdiction on earth.