- Cool and reminds me of a project from like 15 years ago. Forgot what it was called but basically it was just people hiding thumb drives and finding them like a geocache. Fun idea but then I remember Stuxnet and I'm like nah.
Edit: found it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop
Pirate box is mentioned on that page. I forgot about that. I used to carry around an old android phone running pirate box. Sometimes people would connect at a coffee shop and that's how I found out about the band Death Grips
- my cellphone has been named “sneakernet” for years. it’s a throwback to a time when it was faster to walk a zip disk across campus than it was to send it.
by ryanisnan
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- How does this differ from just, say, giving someone an HTML dump of a static site? I don't quite understand what this protocol offers.
How exactly is it peer-to-peer if it's essentially an offline, transfer via hardware?
by iamnothere
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- Nice, modern day samizdat. Looks simple enough to use.
I wonder if there’s a Linux distro that includes tools like this. It’s not a bad idea.
- This looks like a partial reinvention of NNCP's sneakernet transport, but for a much more limited use-case: http://www.nncpgo.org/index.html
You can also run NNCP over networks if you want to.
- I thought this was going to be related to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
- It would be cool to add this as a tool in copyparty! I have had a few friends come over and copy files from my home server they want to use.
- Seems like a mobile app is needed for this. My phone has tons of storage that is unused and always with me.
- How does it work in practice is it like a whisper protocol for distributing sites among different USB drives. So my USB will start storing other sites when I meet someone to exchange data?
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