I accidentally flew with 4 inch long OLFA razor blade refills in the bottom of my laptop bag 4 times, twice around the Boston Marathon bombing, from and to Boston.

I didn’t find them until cleaning out my bag at home after the last flight. Basically some tape could make them into box cutters like the 9/11 guys supposedly used.

But I had to take off my shoes and belt every time, to feel safe.

When I bought my Vanagon 8-9 years ago, the spare tire still said made in west Germany!

I replaced it along with the rest of the badly work truck tires that were on it.

I’m 46 and we got a 14.4 modem in around 1992-3 I think. We used gopher and ftp then later hotline to trade shareware, then warez and serialz.

I miss those days, but I don’t miss downloading 8 of 9 parts of a file and not being able to reconnect to the server for the last one.

That’s how I read it too. More like a fully encrypted anonymized trackerless BitTorrent client (or even more like Hotline (a pair of sort of FTP/chat/bbs client and server apps) for the older pirates in the audience.