Anonymous communication with PirateBox
Pirates used to have a hard time finding a suitable place for their ill-gotten booty. Today, treasures mainly exist in digital form, but finding a suitable location for a digital treasure chest is still difficult. You need to assemble and set up a small server and install and configure server services. PirateBox uses a Raspberry Pi [1] – any model will do – as a platform for your treasure trove. The system does not even require network access and works completely independently, if required.
Laying Down the Ship
The software comes in the form of a ZIP archive that you unpack and then dd to the memory card as you would a Raspbian image (Listing 1); or, you could use a program like Win32 Disk Imager.
On Linux, you discover the output device ID required for the dd command with the lsblk command (in Listing 1, it's /dev/sdc/). A 4GB SD memory card is sufficient, because the system partition does not automatically expand to the entire disk. The system later stores data on a USB stick or a corresponding hard drive.
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