If you’re lucky enough to be walking around the city and come across a wall with a usb port sticking out, and even luckier if you are carrying some sort of downloading device where you can hook up to the usb port and have access to a huge amount of video memory, music and images for free.
“A USB dead drop is an anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file sharing network in public space using a USB device.
Typically, a USB flash drive will be mounted in an outdoor brick wall and fixed in place with concrete. The name comes from the dead drop method of espionage communication.
The first USB dead drop network, of five devices, was started in October 2010 in New York by Berlin-based artist Aram Bartholl, a member of New York’s Fat lab art and technology collective.
Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop by directly plugging their laptop into the USB stick in the wall to share files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project.”
(via wikipedia)
Discover more from Once Was Now
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Once Was Now 