Saturday, April 24, 2010

Anon, you're a real bro

Kicking around 4chan one day when I chanced upon someone putting up a torrent full of ebooks. And I mean like, 1 GB+ of mostly text. A lot of ebooks.

Some people predict that in a few decades, ISPs and corporations will clamp down on what sort of information flows through the internet, destroying our free little anarchy forever. Thankfully, that day isn't here yet.

Hundreds of books in here... 200+ alone are various survival type books, ranging from the general sort to ones specializing on plants, specific disasters like floods, woodland survival, disaster cookbooks. Also two handbooks from the SAS and the US Army.

Also some general cookbooks... blueprints for solar paneling... sleeping guide... sex guide... organic chem... general chem... how to train your dog to get beer from fridge.

"DIY folder" is a another juggernaut, full of one-word pdf files. Lots of household stuff, but its probably written for western architecture.

Don't know whether it's wise to say this (couldn't find a list of banned books for Singapore, typical of MDA to want the flexibility), but there are also many guides to growing certain substances. Stuff that can make you see stars, you get my drift? Yep, a lot of these. Considering deleting these after I finish seeding.

Even that might not be the worst of it. There's a CIA tome here on interrogation (the foreword advises against torture, though). How to construct hidey-holes. Driving techniques for escape and evasion. The most chilling one has to be the anarchist's cookbook. Cursory examination reveals that its not even a PRINTED book like the others - it's an underground compilation of things you can NEVER admit to knowing about in polite society, to put it lightly.

Needless to say, I'm going to be doing a lot of deleting.

Update: Anarchist's cookbook found to be mostly full of crap, lol.