{"id":1656,"date":"2010-10-31T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T13:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:29:48","slug":"anonymous-public-usb-dead-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/10\/anonymous-public-usb-dead-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Public USB Dead Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/30\/dead_drop_grey.jpg\" title=\"USB Public Dead Drop\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Tell Your USB from a Hole in the Wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/datenform.de\/blog\/dead-drops-preview\/\">Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into walls, curbs, and buildings around New York<\/a>. These dead drops, as he terms them, are peer-to-peer file transfer points with true anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The furtiveness of squeezing your laptop or mobile against a wall is rather intimate &#8212; these may be dead drops, but they&#8217;re also data glory holes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/30\/you-cant-tell-your-u.html\">Glenn Fleishman<\/a> @ Boing Boing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/10\/30\/2035243\/USB-Dead-Drops\">comments @ Slashdot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_drop\">Dead drops<\/a>: &#8220;A location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.&#8221; &#8212; Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>This could be useful in a multiplayer game: two players who are secretly allies use a dead drop to exchange in-game data (maps, passcodes, virtual items, in-game points, etc.). Other players try to figure out where the dead drops are located, and who is using them.  <\/p>\n<p>For example, in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_Fortress\">Team Fortress<\/a>, Engineers would build the dead drops, and Spies would use them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing something like this has already been done in one or more games. If you know of any such games, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Tell Your USB from a Hole in the Wall.&#8221; Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into walls, curbs, and buildings around New York. These dead drops, as he terms them, are peer-to-peer file transfer points with true anonymity. &#8230; The furtiveness of squeezing your laptop or mobile against a wall is rather intimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}