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Data Slayer

Off grid and decentralized radio builds, from Raspberry Pi mesh nodes to sovereign networks. The media arm of Parallel.

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The Open Source Internet Is Here

Data Slayer gives himself three weeks to bridge Reticulum onto HF amateur radio so a message can skip off the ionosphere hundreds of miles with no tower, satellite, or middleman. He assembles a Hermes Lite 2, tunes antennas with a NanoVNA, decodes FT8 from Bogota 1,600 miles away, and passes his ham license exam. Because amateur rules forbid encryption and Reticulum is built from it, he terminates encryption at a gateway and sends a plain text, call sign identified frame with a published codec, then carries a real message across his office and two miles across town. The deadline hits before the true skywave test, and he ships the honest result.

NetworkingHardwareSecuritySep 20, 2026

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Data Slayer

The Internet, Reinvented.

Data Slayer argues the internet is not cables or towers but routing, and rebuilds it with Reticulum, a cryptography first networking stack that treats every radio as an interchangeable interface. He hand builds an RNode, then bridges a LoRa only device to a Wi-Fi only device through a dual interface node, proving mismatched hardware can share one network. Scaling up, he runs Reticulum over a long range Wi-Fi HaLow IP mesh on two Raspberry Pi Haven nodes with encryption and route based scaling. The finale routes the Department of Defense mapping app ATAK across that homemade network by hijacking its multicast traffic and fragmenting it to a 500 byte MTU. A build log for a parallel network you own instead of rent.

NetworkingHardwareSecurityFeb 22, 2026