PirateBox

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The goal of this "PirateBox": to create an open file-sharing network in any public space, and to do with total privacy.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
The skull-and-crossbones design, the purposeful lack of logging, and the choice of the "PirateBox" name all suggest, however, that this is a device not meant solely for swapping open-source Linux ISOs.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
When he wanted to distribute a file to the class, he used the PirateBox, and the class used it to distribute their own documents and files to everyone else.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
The total build cost is under $100, not counting the lunchbox enclosure and the optional battery pack the PirateBox can alternately run on AC power.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
Darts admits that the PirateBox is "an artistic provocation."

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
So he built a PirateBox prototype and started taking it to his NYU classes.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
The PirateBox idea was really about "scratching an itch," Darts tells Ars.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
Inside the PirateBox sits a Free Agent Dockstar, an Asus WL330GE wireless router, and a SanDisk 16GB flash drive.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011
project's wiki, Darts adds that the PirateBox is designed to facilitate sharing which, by definition, is the opposite of stealing.

Ars Technica Nate Anderson 2011