"Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
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#2haha well done! Great and fun idea. We should make it a movement and put them up all over the world. And make a site like geocaching for this type of sharing!
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#3Fun concept, but I immediately imagine someone going around smashing these with a hammer (or, perhaps more likely, city workers being sent out to remove them). :\
Here's a much more expensive project with a similar idea:
http://torrentfreak.com/kiosk-of-piracy-an-offline-copy-of-t...
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#4Fun concept, but I immediately imagine someone going around smashing these with a hammer (or, perhaps more likely, city workers being sent out to remove them). :\ Here's a much more expensive project with a similar idea: http://torrentfreak.com/kiosk-of-piracy-an-offline-copy-of-t...
I don't think that Lars Ulrich lives in New York.
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#5It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pretty often...
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#6ℒℴѵℯ it. Going to put some around London tonight.
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#7It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pretty often...
Yup. When I saw it, my first thought: "Better project name: Digital Glory Hole"
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#8Here's a more sophisticated version of a similar idea:
Cellular networks are centrally administered, enabling service providers and their governments to conduct system-wide monitoring and censorship of mobile communication. This paper presents HUMANETS, a fully decentralized, smartphone-to-smartphone (and hence human-to-human) message passing scheme that permits unmonitored message communication even when all cellular traffic is inspected.
HUMANET message routing protocols exploit human mobility patterns to significantly increase communication efficiency while limiting the exposure of messages to mobile service providers. Initial results from trace-driven simulation show that 85% of messages reach their intended destinations while using orders of magnitude less network capacity than naïve epidemic flooding techniques.
http://www.usenix.org/event/hotsec10/tech/full_papers/Aviv.p...
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#9A couple of concerns with usability, malware, and vandalism, but otherwise an AWESOME idea!
What about doing the same thing but attaching it outside your car instead? Then it's your property and it's mobile.
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#10A couple of concerns with usability, malware, and vandalism, but otherwise an AWESOME idea! What about doing the same thing but attaching it outside your car instead? Then it's your property and it's mobile.
If it's your property I think you could be liable of what people put on it.