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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Anonymity For Pirate Operators and Listeners
« on: July 19, 2012, 1608 UTC »
Today, the internet is used for virtually all forms of communications between pirate listeners and operators. Loggings are posted to message boards and mailing lists. Reception reports are sent to email addresses, with eQSLs coming back to the listener by email. And listeners (and some times operators) engage in real time chats via IRC and chat rooms.

Operators and listeners do need to be concerned about possible lack of privacy issues with internet based communications. These risks, and their solutions, include...

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Chris Smolinski
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Re: Anonymity For Pirate Operators and Listeners
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2012, 1704 UTC »
Heed these words of wisdom ! ;D The line between pirate radio on air ,and on-line are becoming very fuzzy.
Marshall McLuhan would have been very confused by pirate radio today. ;)

 

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