I wrote to Godown, Goether Institute, Village Market, Yaya Center, etc. in 2010 to install dead-drops, but none replied. Advice I got is that public dead-drops (that is public street) would not last a day and it is not safe (Nairobbery). *********** Sir/Madam, Dead Drops, created in October 2010 by a German guy living in New York, are now very popular and making the buzz online worldwide. Dead Drops is just a USB key which is fixed in a wall using tape and cement. Please visit this site - http://deaddrops.com/ - for short explanation as well as images As you can see, there are only three dead drops in Africa (1 in South Africa and 2 in Reunion Island). I am planning to place a dead drop somewhere in Nairobi soon to create a buzz... but I got so many remarks - e.g. saying that USB stick will be stolen or City Council will arrest me or robbers will hide in a corner waiting for someone to come with laptop, etc. - that I have decided it would be better to place my Dead Drop in a safe place like a mall. This is why I am writing to you.... So, would it be possible to place a Dead Drop somewhere at Yaya Center ? I am sure that placing a Dead Drop in Yaya Center will create a lot of buzz about it on Kenyan social media (Twitter, Facebook) and why not national media !! On 20 September 2013 10:54, Stephen Wanjau <wanjaustev@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually a group of Wikimedia contributors and I have been doing something in these lines. See [1] below. There is an text-only version of English Wikipedia that is 10GB as of January 2012. The file is highly compressed into a ZIM file <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIM_(file_format)> and it requires a s/ware called Kiwix to read it. Essentially, I was looking at having the S/ware and the English text only version in a flash and then go ahead implanting the same on walls at my campus.
1. http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Deaddrops_%26_Geocaching
Stephen Wanjau
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM, motobaridi <motobaridi@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting indeed. Useful in the right hands, used for the intended purpose (anonymous file-sharing etc?) Hooking up your laptop to "random, PUBLIC" flash drives. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting idea. Anyone keen to implement some local dead drops?
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting idea. Anyone keen to implement some local dead drops?
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