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Standing outside with a stack of paper, being able to give them to passers-by, staying anonymous and free of network surveillance.
Digitally anonymous and free of network surveillance, sure. Physically anonymous and free of a cop simply walking up and arresting you, not so much...
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Always doubt your anonymity. Many color laser printers output hidden, self identifying serial codes.
I did not know this, do you have a source?
So I'd like this on medium that's a bit more permanent than paper, but with similar information density per kg, and similar re-creatability without having any of the original tools available. I'd like to store data for say 100 thousand years.
So I'd like this on medium that's a bit more permanent than paper, but with similar information density per kg, and similar re-creatability without having any of the original tools available. I'd like to store data for say 100 thousand years.
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No, sorry, it's not. That's already trivial: Take a microSD card with your info. Put it together with a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal into a tightly and well wrapped plastic package. Swallow it. Travel. Arrive. Poop. Voila. Also, if you bring big stacks of paper it will often be inspected, since a common way of smuggling currency is putting hundred-dollar bills between the pages of books.
I think you (unintentionally?) are proving the OP right. Because it's far easier to swallow and poop out a plastic bag with a microSD card in it than it is to put a piece of paper in your carry-on. Plus--wouldn't full-body scanners catch something like this?
In a slightly similar vein, there was a device that stored data on VHS cassettes as black and white blobs - https://web.archive.org/web/19970110151745/http://www.danmer...
Someone else in the thread posted a link to screenshots of a Linux port: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10246531
So I'd like this on medium that's a bit more permanent than paper, but with similar information density per kg, and similar re-creatability without having any of the original tools available. I'd like to store data for say 100 thousand years.
DNA? You didn't mention price :)
Reminds me of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauzin_Softstrip . Magazines would print out their source code and you could scan it in. Of course I had no money to buy such an expensive machine so was relegated to mind numbing typing and the inevitable typos that came with it.
With HCCB (High Capacity Color Barcode) of which an implementation is Microsoft Tag you can get 1.5 MB with 600dpi color on a A4. If you add the best compression techniques (cmix v7) depending on the source material you could get 8 times as much english text, easily fitting the pearls or religion: Tenach, New Testament, Quran, Mahabarata, The Dhamapada, the Atthakavagga and the Parayanavagga, Rhinoceros and Lotus Sut…
I commend your enumeration of religious and mystic texts.
The mentioned compression (cmix v7) surely won't fit it all http://www.byronknoll.com/cmix.html
