PirateBox
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A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected to share files anonymously and locally. By design, this device is disconnected from the Internet.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- electrical appliance
- Official website
- piratebox.cc
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- Commons category
- PirateBox
- inception
- 2011-00-00
- discontinuation date
- 2019-00-00
- language of work or name
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Set up
- Raspberry Pi setup
- Uses
- Devices which can be converted to a PirateBox
- Wi-Fi routers
- See also
- References
- External links
A PirateBox is a portable electronic device, often consisting of a Wi-Fi router and a device for storing information, creating a wireless network that allows users who are connected 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PirateBox” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.