How big a file can you share over this USB?
"Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
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#32I have thought for ages of something like this, but instead of usb drivers, a wifi box with a big harddisk. You would connect to the wireless network, open browser at 192.168.0.1 and instead of a router's page, you would get to a website, with a nice interface, where you could select the files you wanted to download or upload others. I even did some drawing and thought of solar pannels and batteries to keep it going…
that would be really nice!
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#33This is as "anonymous" as a public mailbox. This is trivial to monitor, and said monitor could easily perform a diff of the drive after each contact.
Real dead drop locations are typically only known by the involved parties, are ad hoc, and move frequently.
Don't get me wrong -- it's an interesting and sort of amusing project. I don't mind most of the terminology they're using, but I think it's dangerous to call something "anonymous" when it is so far from being so.
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#34How big a file can you share over this USB?
however much space is available on it
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#35I have thought for ages of something like this, but instead of usb drivers, a wifi box with a big harddisk. You would connect to the wireless network, open browser at 192.168.0.1 and instead of a router's page, you would get to a website, with a nice interface, where you could select the files you wanted to download or upload others. I even did some drawing and thought of solar pannels and batteries to keep it going…
Don't wireless networks know the other parties MAC IDs?
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#36I think the term 'network' implies some kind of connection between nodes.
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#37I have thought for ages of something like this, but instead of usb drivers, a wifi box with a big harddisk. You would connect to the wireless network, open browser at 192.168.0.1 and instead of a router's page, you would get to a website, with a nice interface, where you could select the files you wanted to download or upload others. I even did some drawing and thought of solar pannels and batteries to keep it going…
An interesting idea would be using client computers to synchronize boxes automatically in the background.
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#38Fun 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...
You don't even need malicious intent. Mishandle the computer while it's plugged in to the stick and you'd likely damage it pretty quickly.
Re: "Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space
#39Here'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 cellula…
I don't see the similarity, but distributed p2p systems are very interesting, especially when they involve mobile wireless communication. It's kinda sad that there is currently little use for these kind of networks. In larger cities node density could get high enough to actually create a continuous mesh network with acceptable latency and loss.
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