FabLab, un progetto umanitario interessante e controverso nato tra le montagne afgane e finanziato dal governo americano, solleva il tema della strumentalizzazione della ricerca scientifica C'era una volta il tubo delle patatine Pringles che, sin dall'inizio degli anni Duemila, è stato usato dagli hacker in giro per il mondo (o per lo meno in quelle parti del mondo dove le grandi multinazionali avevano reso le Pringles accessibili) per creare antenne a guida d'onda che occupano porzioni di spettro elettromagnetico non controllate da licenze private o regolamentazioni governative.%FabLab, an interesting and controversial humanitarian project born in the Afghan mountains and financed by the American government, raises questions on the exploitation of scientific research Back in 2000, hackers around the world started using tubes of Pringles potato chips (at least, those parts of the world that had access to Pringles, thanks to large multinationals) to make waveguide antennas ("cantennas") that pick up parts of the electromagnetic spectrum which are outside the control of private license or government regulations. In other words, they exploited Pringles-tube antennas to provide an alternative means of access to the Internet. As one example of its potential, a few years ago "computer pirates" employed this method in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to wipe their colleagues' personal details from police archives after they had been arrested for poking their noses into computer data that did not concern them.
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