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Re: Plants as network medium?

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From: offentha
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00
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Stefan Sehnbruch wrote:

> Hmm, I really love that thought about plants being a communication
> network's medium. The only problem is: How do you teach them the TCP/IP
> protocol?
>
> Regards
> --
> Stefan Sehnbruch
> Gelsenkirchen, Germany
>
> --- Experience is a quite useful thing,
> --- normally you have it a short time after you needed it !

Actually the concept really offers some outstanding advantages among which:
free access to the root-directory within minutes (depending on soil
properties), privacy ensured through 2-bit DNA-encoding, a perfect solution
for network security (anything more effective than a fire-wall in a wood?)
However, the risk of winterly loss of data in deciduous forests still
remains.
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From: offentha <offentha@edv1.boku.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Plants as network medium?
Date: 1998/08/31
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