LOL, using pigeons to avoid government surveillance

On June 30, 2013, prompted by revelations of surveillance programs in the United States and Britain, former Union of International Associations Assistant Secretary-General Anthony Judge published a detailed proposal titled "Circumventing Invasive Internet Surveillance With Carrier Pigeons." In it, Judge discusses the proven competence of carrier pigeons for delivering messages, their non-military and military messaging capacity, and Chinese experiments to create pigeon cyborgs. Judge acknowledges that pigeon networks have their own vulnerability (such as disease, hawks, or being lured off course by sexy decoys), but argues that others have proven pigeons are effective at transmitting digital data.

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Judge's proposal has its roots in a series of earlier Request for Comments to the Internet Engineering Task Force, the ad hoc body charged with developing and promoting internet standards. On April Fools' Day in 1990, David Waitzman submitted an RFC on the idea of using carrier pigeons or other birds for the transmission of electronic data. Waitzman called his new communication standard "Internet Protocol over Avian Carriers" (IPoAC). Nine years later, Waitzman issued a second RFC, this one suggesting improvements to his original protocol. On April 1, 2011, Brian Carpenter and Robert Hinden issued their own RFC detailing how to use IPoAC with the latest revisions to the Internet Protocol IPv6.

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LOL, using pigeons to avoid government surveillance

LOL, using pigeons to avoid government surveillance

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