In most of the US i am pretty sure the utility oligopoly has a lock on
   the public roads, and I am pretty sure they will not allow anything to
   be strung across or under the road.

   On Wed, Feb 10, 2016, 20:39 grarpamp <[1]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:

     On 2/10/16, Sean Lynch <[2]seanl@literati.org> wrote:
     > Your immediate next door neighbor, yes. But forget crossing a
     street or
     > wiring the house two doors down if your immediate neighbor doesn't
     agree.
     Across street requires guerrilla horizontal boring deep enough
     to not be found during complete roadway / utility replacement.
     You can rent the rigs yourself. Or go the permit route.
     First door usually don't mind getting to second if you propose
     path and demonstrate proper shovel / laying technique that
     doesn't fuck up their lawn. Beer helps.
     You can also VPN over incumbents, but that is traffic correlation
     risk.
     > One should definitely use wired links when possible, but this
     problem is
     > why the telcos and cable companies are able to maintain their
     local
     > monopolies/oligopolies.
     They do it because property owners ultimately granted ROW in
     return for service, they then paid govt to keep it.
     However, they will have an extremely hard to impossible time
     trying to shoot down new ROW grants over new path by same
     owners for novel new more or less private service.
     All you have to do is sell your service... 'free', 'private',
     and even 'local' are compelling if you spin it right.
     > exchanging files with a local village server using something akin
     to UUCP,
     At least for sensitive content,
     that works if the files are encrypted (courier rightly demands this)
     and
     have specific consumers (pki or shared secret symmetric, otherwise
     courier wouldn't touch them). Though as before, if they're to be of
     global use to everyone, the courier can't know contents, and they
     have to be pluggable so that they become global when plugged.
     > Could do the same thing with attribution-resistant bootleg servers
     planted
     > in stealthy locations.
     USB dead drops... Library Freedom Project... running client/server
     nodes... publicly accessible injection and retrieval points within
     censorship resistant overlay networks...

References

   1. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com
   2. mailto:seanl@literati.org