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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by papachito on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @08:47PM (#1379170)
Stallman travels a lot, South America, Asia and in these conditions the only way to get internet is to go to a net cafe where they only run windows XP full of virus with IE6. It is a really slow, frustrating and annoying experience, believe me. More than once I wished I had exactly that, a daemon that would download all my stuff so I could get them on my laptop and get the hell out of those net cafe asap. So yes, what Stallman is doing here is not political, it's actually a great, useful hack that unfortunately always gets quoted out of context. It's actually the best way to surf the web when you're travelling in those countries.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by Shorel on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @09:15PM (#1379212)
Three years ago, sure.

But now he can get one of those 3G USB modems and change the simcard in each country.

I don't think he is hacking the network or whatever. He is hacking his time, and his attention, and that's more like meta-thinking.

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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by KERMIT on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @09:39PM (#1379257)
His daemon solution actually sounds simpler, and much cheaper...
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by papachito on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @10:22PM (#1379330)
RMS doesn't use cellphones 3G/GSM for privacy reasons.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by AngryParsley on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:58AM (#1379558)
If that's the case, can't he use a 3G card but just send all his data over a VPN/ssh tunnel/ssl proxy/whatever?
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by kragen on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @04:47AM (#1379851)
No, that doesn't help.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by AngryParsley on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @05:44AM (#1379908)
Why not? With a VPN, anyone capturing data on the wire would see encrypted traffic to a single server owned by RMS or someone he trusts.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by tjr on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @11:00AM (#1380428)
I believe that the issue is that he doesn't want the network service provider to know where he is.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by elai on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:21AM (#1379505)
Many net cafes let you connect your own laptop, and those speaking engagements often have internet.
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Re:How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet by papachito on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @01:02AM (#1379562)
But even then, the net is very slow there, so it's faster to bulk load everything compressed and read it later.
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