Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network - A Call To Arms. Hackers need satellites.
Hackers need internet over satellites. Satellites require ground stations. Let's build them! As proposed by Nick Farr et al at CCCamp11, we - the hacker community - are in desperate need for our own communication infrastructure. So here we are, answering the call for the Hacker Space Program with our proposal of a distributed satellite communications ground station network. Hackers Launching Satellite to Evade Internet Censorship. A group of hackers plans to launch a separate internet using amateur satellites and $130 ground stations.
What do you do when Hollywood and the government team up to enforce censorship on the internet with the likes of SOPA and Protect-IP? Launch another government-free internet, of course. During the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin back in August -- an annual hacker conference sponsored by the German Chaos Computer Club -- a team of German hackers revealed plans to launch their own communication satellites into space in order to create a separate, "uncensorable" network called the Hackerspace Global Grid (HGG).
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