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I would be most worried about getting a virus on my system from a random jump drive in the city. Too many AH's in the world anymore and even a simple, very damaging virus can be created by a 10 year old anymore. If I wanted to screw with people I'd just sign up for the free app, make an unverified bogus account and wreak havoc on them puppies. We have enough issues with a Tupperware in the woods. At least that's it just an annoyance. A virus can do some real damage.

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I first became aware of dead drops on another cache site a few years ago.

I think they are a very bad idea, defacing public property with their taintted files. I'm really glad that Groundspeak will not publish this type of cache. Geocachers have a bad enough image already. :ph34r:

 

The one I've found on another site was attached to fishing line, and tucked into the open ended tubular bracing of a picnic table in a public park. Who said they have to be cemented into the side of a building? The only thing on there were two text files, a "read me" file, and another which was the log. I thought it was pretty cool, actually. I have a funny feeling that 1)I'm in a distinct minority, and 2) They'd never be published here in a million years. :lol:

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Masonry / Concrete Drilling

 

Bosch brings constant innovation to concrete and masonry drilling. From inventing the industry standard SDS system to custom-manufactured carbide and diffusion bonding, the result is better performance and durability. And Bosch Bulldog™ Xtreme bits last 4X longer than any other bit when hitting rebar.

 

Entry level costs can be quite low for affixing caches, including these cutting edge flash drives, to buildings (with permission, of course). You probably already have the hammer, and a masonry chisel is under $10. No need for a masonry drill bit unless you plan on placing a lot of caches in brick and stone walls.

 

Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

(Relax, Cascade. Tell the people upstairs this is satire.)

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

 

Have a look at this then:

 

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/usb-has-a-fundamental-security-flaw-that-you-cant-detect/

 

Plus you don't know if there is only 2 text files until it is connected to your computer and you've opened it up. Till you open it on your computer it's a bit of a Schrodinger's cat situation.

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

 

Have a look at this then:

 

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/08/usb-has-a-fundamental-security-flaw-that-you-cant-detect/

 

Plus you don't know if there is only 2 text files until it is connected to your computer and you've opened it up. Till you open it on your computer it's a bit of a Schrodinger's cat situation.

 

As far as that link, I knew someone would come up with something. :P Actually, I'd be worried about these things being exposed to the elements and shorting out my device, more than I would some evil virus.

 

Now talking about the public dead drops used for file sharing that contain Gigabytes worth of files. These were invented by a German National living in New York City in 2010. There is a video on their website of him installing the first 5 in NYC. The guy used existing cracks and holes in old buildings. In one of them, he even repairs another crack in the wall, and his partner says "good samaritan". If these things were nano caches, they'd be published on this website in well, a nanosecond. :)

 

EDIT: P.S. I would think the people that use these things tend to be rather computer savvy, and know how to isolate, and get rid of viruses. I'm going to guess they all have Norton installed. B)

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

 

I've done a puzzle cache or two which used an image with a name such as puzzle.jpg that could be viewed as an image using any image viewing/editing software. If you changed the .jpg file extention from .jpg to .rar (or .zip) it could be opened with an archive extraction tool and you'd find that it contained other files (in one case it was another image of a QR code). A .txt file extension is necessarily indicative that the file only contains text.

 

A few years ago there was a virus going around that was disseminated through flash drives. There were several locations set up around the university (staffed by people that had other things to do) with a linux box with some software that would detect and clean the virus, not only from flash drives but from any removable media. There were over 1700 instances of infected flash drives and even a few camera SD-cards that were found to contain the virus over 1 day and a half of testing.

 

I also remember hearing a story a few years ago from someone from some national electronic security agency that talked about one of those digital picture frames that contained a virus. In that case, they found a digital picture frame produced by some place in China. When the usb cable for the device was plugged into computer it downloaded an application used to display digital photos on the device. The application included a virus that would scan the users system looking for sensitive data and send it to an email address in China. These digital picture frames were brand new, out of the box, purchased at a big box electronics store.

 

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

 

I've done a puzzle cache or two which used an image with a name such as puzzle.jpg that could be viewed as an image using any image viewing/editing software. If you changed the .jpg file extention from .jpg to .rar (or .zip) it could be opened with an archive extraction tool and you'd find that it contained other files (in one case it was another image of a QR code). A .txt file extension is necessarily indicative that the file only contains text.

 

A few years ago there was a virus going around that was disseminated through flash drives. There were several locations set up around the university (staffed by people that had other things to do) with a linux box with some software that would detect and clean the virus, not only from flash drives but from any removable media. There were over 1700 instances of infected flash drives and even a few camera SD-cards that were found to contain the virus over 1 day and a half of testing.

 

I also remember hearing a story a few years ago from someone from some national electronic security agency that talked about one of those digital picture frames that contained a virus. In that case, they found a digital picture frame produced by some place in China. When the usb cable for the device was plugged into computer it downloaded an application used to display digital photos on the device. The application included a virus that would scan the users system looking for sensitive data and send it to an email address in China. These digital picture frames were brand new, out of the box, purchased at a big box electronics store.

 

Just throwing this one out there...

 

Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

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Electronics is the wave of the future (hellloooo!), & once the old guard retires, you can expect caching to come into the 21st century.

 

:ph34r:

 

 

Personally, I'd love to know how a "virus", i.e. your typical browser hijacking virus that you'd get from going to your average porn site, for example, is going to make it's way onto a flash drive that contains only 2 .txt files, as outlined in the guidance for placing one of these caches on another site. :unsure:

 

I've done a puzzle cache or two which used an image with a name such as puzzle.jpg that could be viewed as an image using any image viewing/editing software. If you changed the .jpg file extention from .jpg to .rar (or .zip) it could be opened with an archive extraction tool and you'd find that it contained other files (in one case it was another image of a QR code). A .txt file extension is necessarily indicative that the file only contains text.

 

A few years ago there was a virus going around that was disseminated through flash drives. There were several locations set up around the university (staffed by people that had other things to do) with a linux box with some software that would detect and clean the virus, not only from flash drives but from any removable media. There were over 1700 instances of infected flash drives and even a few camera SD-cards that were found to contain the virus over 1 day and a half of testing.

 

I also remember hearing a story a few years ago from someone from some national electronic security agency that talked about one of those digital picture frames that contained a virus. In that case, they found a digital picture frame produced by some place in China. When the usb cable for the device was plugged into computer it downloaded an application used to display digital photos on the device. The application included a virus that would scan the users system looking for sensitive data and send it to an email address in China. These digital picture frames were brand new, out of the box, purchased at a big box electronics store.

 

Just throwing this one out there...

 

Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

 

I knew I'd never get away with saying "how am I going to get a virus from a clean stick that contains only 2 .txt files"? :laughing:

 

For the record, I have not used any of the dead drops listed on deaddrops.com. But I will say this; I have a teenager and a 20 year old, who was recently a teenager. And I am undefeated versus and and all viruses on any computer that they have ever thrown at me. :)

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These were invented by a German National living in New York City in 2010. There is a video on their website of him installing the first 5 in NYC. The guy used existing cracks and holes in old buildings. In one of them, he even repairs another crack in the wall, and his partner says "good samaritan".

Sure, for the video.

Feel good PR for the project, by changing the issue of private property to one of beautification.

Funny that I couldn't find him asking permission from the building's owners anywhere.

- That would have been a smart move for the project and issues down the road.

 

For the rest of the copycats, who can't find their block's buildings in such poor condition, they'd have to add a hand sledge and a hammer drill bit to their tool kit...

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