I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not...
Send Messages by Carrier Pigeons
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#32will it scale?
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#33Is it April First already?
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#34Opportunity: "Get Early Bird Access"
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#35So I don't blame anyone for taking this seriously (it took me 5 minutes of reading their blog before I finally convinced myself it was a joke), but this is definitely a parody. I mean, just look at this from their YC application: > Our initial market research suggests Pigeon can become a major player in the pigeon-as-a-service (PaaS) space. > It's difficult to explain to non-pigeon users (NPUs), but the excitement is…
Yeah this is Poe's law to the extreme....
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#36What is the latency like?
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#37What is the latency like?
If you're willing to trade very high latency for high bandwidth, could be worth it, see https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/.
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#38Indeed, if we also cut out the browser and the cloud, then NSA and colleagues will just have to train their own under-cover stool pigeons. This should be fun to watch.
The problem with using pigeons for transferring private data is the automatic route tracing (as described in RFC1149). Any person will notice any pigeon routing that is being performed and this may provide enough information for future packets to be captured in transit. However carefully designed dietary controls can reduce the risk, for example, by limiting fiber intake.
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#39I read once that carrier pigeons go only one way (back home). How does this work?
Yup, it's a one way service. Here's a brilliant (long) read on the wild ways of pigeons: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/magazine/the-pigeon-king-a...
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#40Wait until you see my startup to send passengers by passenger pigeon.