October 31, 2010

offline peer to peer sharing

Dead Drops (via) is an “an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space” created by Aram Bartholl:

I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. ‘Dead Drops’ is still in progress, to be continued here and in more cities. Full documentation, movie, map and ‘How to make your own dead drop’ manual coming soon! Stay tuned.

I don’t think I need to tell you how incredibly cool this is.

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comments

  1. Joel Bernstein on October 31st, 2010 at 9:33 pm

    How long before they get infected with viruses/trojans?

  2. Andrew Simone on October 31st, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    Oh, two days tops.

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