USB dead drop

USB dead drop
One of Aram Bartholl's USB dead drops installed in Brooklyn, NY

A USB dead drop is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file sharing network in public space using a USB device.

Typically, a USB flash drive will be mounted in an outdoor brick wall and fixed in place with concrete. The name comes from the dead letter box method of espionage communication.

The first USB dead drop network, of five devices, was started in October 2010 in New York by Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl,[1] a member of New York's Fat lab art and technology collective.

Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project.

See also

Following this concept, wireless dead drops are being created.[2][3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Dead Drops: Bizarre new artwork embeds USB sticks in buildings". Mail Online. 3 November 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1326177/Dead-Drops-Bizarre-new-artwork-embeds-USB-sticks-buildings.html. Retrieved 16 March 2011. 
  2. ^ "PirateBox". http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox. 
  3. ^ "WIDROP". http://widrop.bzhack.org/. 
  4. ^ "Wireless drop". http://www.deaddrops.com/db/?page=view&id=465. 

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