The Sneakerweb

ryanisnan 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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?

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NDlurker 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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greyb 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>Edit: found it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_dead_drop

I wanted these to exist so badly, it was a fun and quirky concept, but people kept bashing it online as the stupidest idea ever, and the few dead drops that existed in my city routinely got destroyed.

I also built my own PirateBox too, but the only thing that was ever uploaded to it was a creepshot of me and my PirateBox. Turns out when Public Wi-Fi exists, they're actively ignored.

	▲	NDlurker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh that is creepy. I went to coffee shops with mine because I figured those were the only places anyone would notice it and possibly connect. I had a few random pictures, chats, and a Death Grips video uploaded to mine. The dead drop website had a map but I was never anywhere near any. That sucks that people destroyed them. It's a dangerous idea, but a cheap used laptop specifically for it could be fun, but yeah, not enough people would ever do that to make it worthwhile.

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tiffanyh 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought this was going to be related to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

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jaxn 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	mc3301 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I'd walk with my CRT monitor and tower (stuffed all cables, mouse, keyboard inside) over to my friend's to play games/mess with computers a couple decades ago. We called it the "sneakernet", too.
	▲	edoceo 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A simpler time, with South Park on RralPlayer. And before with Leisure Suit Larry.

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hahahaa 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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iamnothere 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.