El Paquete: How Cuba's data pirates hand-feed an internet-starved nation
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Cuba's data smugglers run a black market that involves hand-delivering, sharing and spreading chunks of the World Wide Web in weekly bundles. It’s called 'El Paquete,' or the package, and it's a thriving underground trade in a country with little access to the internet.