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That's a shame, and although I never set up a LibraryBox, got some very good ideas from the concept. Thanks for the opportunity and inspiration though!

I also ran a PirateBox for a while and recently set up a "sharebox" based on an Onion Omega 2P which worked well. The biggest obstacles I found were that people were generally unwilling to connect to an unsecure wireless access point, even when the SSID was more "benign" than "PirateBox". Also, the struggle to deal with the increasing de-popularisation of HTTP in favour of HTTPS. Android phones also tended to not want to stay connected to devices that "weren't connected to the Internet".

The irony is that with the way the online world's going, the need for LibraryBox and similar devices is going to be greater than ever.



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