Anonymous communication with PirateBox
Treasure Chest
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PirateBox provides an easily accessible server for files, chats, and forum posts for meetings of all kinds. The system works without logins and protocols, so users remain anonymous.
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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