I’ve had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?

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          Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

          Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

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            To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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              The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.

              But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there’s not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.

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        Encryption is illegal over Ham Radio in many jurisdictions.

        To be clear, encryption is not illegal per se. Obscuring the meaning of a message is what’s illegal. You can encrypt radio traffic if you have the keys posted somewhere so that anybody could decrypt the transmission. If you obscure the meaning of a message in plain English by using code words, that’s illegal.

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        I am in a rural area, so this would work. Although, I could just pgp encrypt a message and put it on a microsd card, and send that with a pigeon.

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        Hmm…

        Can any of this be weaponized to protect a property?

        Can any wireless be…? Ideally without frying anything locally like an EMP… “you mean an emp? No, and EMP!”