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A LAN shareparty without internet access might be a better way to revitalize the sneakernet. You could just use a httpd to share your files and let others download what they want over a 1GB LAN. Or use some file-sharing system locally and only locally.

Curiously enough, in a LAN party the IP addresses are much less critical than on the internet. If we assume that there were MAFIAA infiltrators listening on your local torrent swarms then nobody really knows whose computer is behind, say, 192.168.0.67: a dhcp server will distribute ips pretty randomly to different participants without querying who they are. Of course, some computers connected to the same router will see the corresponding MACs but following those would require the infiltrator to know which port of the router can be used to find a certain MAC and you don't really see that unless you have access to the router console.

Conversely, ISPs generally keep track of who's using which IP at a given moment eventhough the internet is global and one might think that any IP address will just disappear in the sea of endless numbers.



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