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Fun 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.
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I don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
You think incorrectly and having that assumption, you're exposing yourself to more risk. To assume Linux USB drivers, file systems and file managers don't contain vulnerabilities is to assume wrong.
It is a bad idea to plug untrusted hardware into your computer. Many Windows users have autorun enabled, so could be infected with malware as soon as they plug it in. This has been exploited by people pretending to run promotions and handing out infected USB drives in front of targeted businesses. Worse than autorun, there have been buffer overflows against USB drivers and proof-of-concept exploits that allowed Firew…
I 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?
I 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?
Mac OS: sudo ifconfig en0 lladdr
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Someone could always re-wire the thing into mains power, in all probability destroying anything connected to it regardless of any software it might be running.
Not to mention potentially killing the next person to try to use it.