In most of the US i am pretty sure the utility oligopoly has a lock on the public roads, and I am pretty sure they will not allow anything to be strung across or under the road.
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 20:39 grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/10/16, Sean Lynch <se...@literati.org> wrote: > > Your immediate next door neighbor, yes. But forget crossing a street or > > wiring the house two doors down if your immediate neighbor doesn't agree. > > Across street requires guerrilla horizontal boring deep enough > to not be found during complete roadway / utility replacement. > You can rent the rigs yourself. Or go the permit route. > First door usually don't mind getting to second if you propose > path and demonstrate proper shovel / laying technique that > doesn't fuck up their lawn. Beer helps. > You can also VPN over incumbents, but that is traffic correlation > risk. > > > One should definitely use wired links when possible, but this problem is > > why the telcos and cable companies are able to maintain their local > > monopolies/oligopolies. > > They do it because property owners ultimately granted ROW in > return for service, they then paid govt to keep it. > However, they will have an extremely hard to impossible time > trying to shoot down new ROW grants over new path by same > owners for novel new more or less private service. > All you have to do is sell your service... 'free', 'private', > and even 'local' are compelling if you spin it right. > > > exchanging files with a local village server using something akin to > UUCP, > > At least for sensitive content, > that works if the files are encrypted (courier rightly demands this) and > have specific consumers (pki or shared secret symmetric, otherwise > courier wouldn't touch them). Though as before, if they're to be of > global use to everyone, the courier can't know contents, and they > have to be pluggable so that they become global when plugged. > > > Could do the same thing with attribution-resistant bootleg servers > planted > > in stealthy locations. > > USB dead drops... Library Freedom Project... running client/server > nodes... publicly accessible injection and retrieval points within > censorship resistant overlay networks... >
