The Sneakerweb

(sneakerweb.org)

25 points | by GalaxyNova 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • NDlurker 47 minutes ago
    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

  • hahahaa 31 minutes ago
    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?
  • jaxn 1 hour ago
    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.
    • edoceo 42 minutes ago
      A simpler time, with South Park on RralPlayer. And before with Leisure Suit Larry.
  • iamnothere 1 hour ago
    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.