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Pirate Box

Anonymous local communication and file sharing system

January 3, 2020

Pirate Box is a portable electronic device, including a Wi-Fi hotspot and something to store information, creating a wireless network that allows connected users to share files anonymously and locally. By design, this device is disconnected from the Internet. The PirateBox was originally designed to exchange data freely under the public domain or under a free license. The poetic side is that this machine has been made possible by sharing information in the Internet age. But if however the Internet were to disappear, the interest and the value of this machine would be increased tenfold, thus allowing a group of people to exchange locally and discuss within a radius of about 1 km.