*I wonder how long that sneaker-net hack will persist.
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/cubas-black-market-is-a-website-that-exists-primarily-offline
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"Ever since its inception, Revolico has been a vital portion of the paquete, a weekly motherlode of files smuggled from the United States (presumably Miami) to Cuba on external hard drives and USB drives.
"The paquete, or "package," comes every Tuesday and within a day has made its way to every corner of the island, complete with brand new pirated episodes of television series from around the world, foreign news, music, ebooks, magazines, computer games and programs, and Android and iPhone applications. In addition to new movies (Minions, Pixels, End of the World) and TV shows, the paquete always contained an entire copy of the Spanish-language Wikipedia and Revolico, which takes up about a gigabyte of space. Another market, called "Popular," is also distributed through the paquete and allows users to publish ads using SMS.
"The paquete is available in basically any business that has a computer, and it's surely available at the many small smartphone repair / video pirating stores that are common in even small towns. I was able to purchase the paquete in five different Cuban cities with no problem whatsoever. It costs less than a dollar, and it's something that basically every Cuban knows about—some stores even advertise it openly…."
