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I work near one of these and a couple of us decided to investigate purely out of curiosity one lunch time earlier this year. We used a netbook with a fresh Win
by meaty 14y ago
I work near one of these and a couple of us decided to investigate purely out of curiosity one lunch time earlier this year.
We used a netbook with a fresh Windows XP on it and nothing of value and destroyed the disk afterwards.
It had on it some inane chart mp3s, a low quality DVD rip, a text file with 1337speak in it and what looked like a Ubuntu ISO. I doubt anyone else had actually plugged anything into it and these were probably the originator's files.
I can see the attraction and purpose of it, but the idealisms probably won't ever be realised with human nature as it stands. Someone will trash or break it and someone else will upload something nasty to it.
As for security, all these probably carry the Internet clap so don't go sticking them in anything of value (sounds like a certain human problem as well).
- praptak 14y agoFor this to be remotely usable, a cheap and lightweight (physical) client should exist. Your netbook with a fresh XP and nothing of value is a good approximation of that. I wonder how low-cost could one go with a custom made USB device that just copies everything to itself after connecting. Effects of scale unfortunately don't apply, as it would have about 10 customers worldwide :)
- morsch 14y agoMany smartphones and tablets support plugging in USB devices with a $5 USB on-the-go cable and (sometimes) minor software modification.
- meaty 14y agoThey already made them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-Anywhere-data-copier/dp/B000CRPTCA http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-Anywhere-data-copier/dp/B...
- sebkomianos 14y agoRegarding "human nature as it stands", doesn't nature change when things different to it happen?