Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.
Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
Initial assumption that it’s faster to sneakernet couple hundred GB’s is a bit dated (as are other measurements, you can fit a lot more data in a milk jug on sd cards today), but theory remains the same.
The boxes of papers on an airplane seat in The Post come to mind. I’ve also seen encrypted hard drives being mailed to contractors with keys sent out-of-band afterwards.
There are a lot of good reasons to carry data around.