Dead Drops P2P File Sharing Spreads Around Globe

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 2, 2013 @08:12AM from the will-someday-enable-a-revolution-in-dystopia dept.

Lucas123 writes "After beginning as an art project 3 years ago in Manhattan to thwart government online spying and offer a physical depiction of our digitally-connected society, a trend of embedding USB thumb drives in walls has caught on and spread to every continent but Antarctica. Dead Drops, as the anonymous P2P files sharing network is called, now has more than 1,200 locations worldwide and has morphed as participants have become more creative in not only where they place the drives, but how they share files, including creating WiFi locations. The thumb drives, which range in size from a few megabytes to 60GB, have allowed people to share music, video, personal photos, poetry, political discourse, or artwork anonymously. Dead Drops creator, German artist Aram Bartholl, said the project is a way to 'un-cloud' file sharing."

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What a great idea! by Russ1642 · 2013-10-02 08:19 · Score: 5, Funny

The technological equivalent of having unprotected sex through a glory hole at a Quebec truckstop.
1. Re:What a great idea! by Russ1642 · 2013-10-02 08:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  When trying to depict something as seedy make it French. I didn't make up the rules.
Re:Why yes! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-02 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Not a thing. I have no idea how I am even making this post.
Re: Why yes! by DigiShaman · 2013-10-02 13:14 · Score: 3, Funny

I've seen what happens to a PC that took a direct hit. Lightning struck the house that it was in. The damage to the motherboard was fantastic! Every IC, south bridge, north bridge, and main CPU, had its packaging material blown off exactly where each chip was below it. I've never seen anything like it.

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