Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives

concealment sends this quote from an article about evading internet censorship with the sneakernet: "Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that 'nothing is changing' in Cuba’s ossified political system and that 'the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.' But Sanchez said underground blogs, digital portals and illicit e-magazines proliferate, passed around on removable computer drives known as memory sticks. The small computer memories, also known as flash drives or thumb drives, are dropped into friendly hands on buses and along street corners, offering a surprising number of Cubans access to information. 'Information circulates hand to hand through this wonderful gadget known as the memory stick,' Sanchez said, 'and it is difficult for the government to intercept them. I can't imagine that they can put a police officer on every corner to see who has a flash drive and who doesn't.'"

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JumpShot

[ianwojtowicz]

I wrote some scripts for updating my offline Debian machine through a SneakerNet. Y'all might find it useful:

JumpShot

Re:A Subversive Library at their Fingertips...

[jelizondo]

At least check your facts pal... You know Google is your friend...

Yoani was born in Cuba in 1975 and left the island in 2002; how's that for never lived in Cuba?

Re:A Subversive Library at their Fingertips...

[pollarda]

There is actually a copy of Matthew in Hebrew and if appears as if the Greek text comes from it. It was preserved by a series of Jewish scholars who wrote nasty notes in the margins and they used it as they argued against Christianity. Little did they know they were preserving the last Hebrew manuscript of Matthew. Funny how life works.

Re:more likely, private business

[TheDarkMaster]

Here in Brazil we have many people like Yoani: Reinaldo Azevedo, Paulo Francis, Merval Pereira, even magazines like "Veja". All working hard to say that Brazil is "threatened by The Red Terror" and that the only salvation would be free and unrestricted capitalism (you should know the threat that is a capitalism practiced without limits...).