When traveling around the world, if you are lucky you can find treasure troves of data in the form of Dead Drop USBs hidden in walls or electric poles around.
Sometimes when wandering around the world, sometimes, if you are lucky and have a keen eye, you will notice a few USB heads fixed to walls, fences, or electric poles. So is there anything interesting inside these USBs, or are they just some naughty products of a group of curious people?
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| Have you ever seen USBs like this? |
These USBs are actually called Dead Drops. They are actually usable data USBs that have been stripped bare and permanently installed everywhere. People can use these USBs to exchange information with each other in the oldest way - P2P (peer-to-peer).
Dead Drop is the creation of Aram Bartholl, an artist living in Berlin, Germany. Bartholl has a passion for espionage and dreams of one day living undercover like the cool spies he sees in movies. So Bartholl starts hiding USB sticks all over the city and the world, hidden in walls, fences, sidewalks, electric poles, wherever he feels like it.
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| Dead Drops are hidden all over the world. |
There are currently 1617 USBs hidden around the world, with a total of approximately 18,000 GB of data. When you find these mysterious USBs, you cannot know in advance what is inside, so when you are lucky enough to find them, prepare safety measures for your laptop, in case you accidentally get a few dirty cultural products, it will be extremely tiring.
For example, in February 2015, a German reporter discovered a bomb blueprint while trying to exchange data with a Dead Drop USB in Cologne, along with recipes for making crystal meth and other deadly poisons. That USB was the secret manual of assassin organizations around the world, which was carefully hidden and passed around the underground.
If you are an adventurous person, try to find these Dead Drop USBs. They are everywhere in the world, except the Arctic, Iceland or as far north as New Zealand. The latest locations to get Dead Drops are Hong Kong, Tay Ninh city, China and Baden Württemberg in Germany.
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| From electric poles, walls, USB can be hidden anywhere. |
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| You have to be extremely sharp-eyed to spot these "data treasures." |
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| Using old Peer-to-Peer data transmission protocol, contrary to current cloud trend. |
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| You will never know what is in that USB. |
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| Who would have thought there was a USB here? |
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| Here you go, your love database is here. |
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| If you're lucky, you might even find an e-book version of a martial arts manual. |
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| Does this look familiar? Try searching this database. |
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