USB Dead Drops

Dead drops is a project by Aram Bartholl that seeks to create "dead drops" which are cloudless offline storage that anyone can access.

This instructable goes over how i set up a dead drop right in downtown san francisco, hopefully with these instructions you can do you own, anywhere.

From Deaddrops.com:
 

‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your favorite files and data. Each dead drop is installed empty except a readme.txt file explaining the project.
 

The term dead drop comes from an old spy term where some information would be passed from one person to another, usually party a would leave something for party b to pick up sometime later. This project takes that same concept and turns it into a peer to peer system where people can share all kinds of random files or ideas. 

For this you will need at least the following:

1 USB stick
Plumbers tape
Patching cement (get quick drying if possible)
Small Screwdriver

Optional
Drill with masonry bit
USB extension Cable

First you want to take apart your usb drive so you just have the circuit board. This is easy to do with just a small screw driver.

Next you want to wrap the usb drive in plumbers tape to make it water proof. When you are done you'll have a nice little covering.

Next you want to prepare your drop point. If need be you can use a drill and masonry bit to drill out enough space to fit your usb drive.

Once the hole it made place the usb drive in to see if it fits.

Now that you have a clean drop point, time to use cement to make it stick. Make sure you don't get cement on the usb tip. Just apply it inside of the hole and a bit around.

Next you want to upload the required files and put them onto the drive. You could do this earlier, but any time during the process is fine

The usb stick must contain these files:
http://deaddrops.com/download/readme.txt
and
http://deaddrops.com/download/deaddrops-manifesto.txt

The dead drop project requires 3 pictures of your dead drop, one far away, one medium distance and one close up.

Next you want to Submit your dead drop to the listing of drops all around the world, you can do that by going here: http://deaddrops.com/dead-drops/db-map/


Lastly if you want you can do some maintenance, this would include checking for viruses or deleting files that are old, etc.

This dead drop contains a special prize for those who contact it.

Please post your own dead drops in the comments!