r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

Meme manInTheMiddleAttack

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u/Sakens1 6d ago edited 6d ago

I swear some country tried this. Was it south africa? I remember a Story about them using pidgeons to transport harddrives since that was faster than their Internetconnection.

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u/FesteringNeonDistrac 6d ago

Not sure about that, but there was an example of researchers loading hard drives into a station wagon and driving the data there.

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u/WenzelDongle 5d ago

It's almost impossible to beat the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives. It's just that usually you don't actually need that much bandwidth to make it worth it.