Tipper - Dead Drop

If you are walking around a street and find a USB stick sticking out of a wall, don't get surprised.

You've most likely come across what's known as a 'Dead Drop'. It's a global project borrowed some tricks from the world of spies and espionage. In history, spies exchanged information in person which is known as the 'Live Drop'. Due to its nature of working, it was quite dangerous. That's why dead drop was invented.

Spies started hiding/dropping information on secret places like loose bricks in the wall for them to be picked up later.

Berlin-based scientist Rom Arthel decided to create an offline peer-to-peer sharing network in the public space. This project enables everyone to swap confidential information with others by hiding memory sticks all over the world.

There are various dead drops databases available on the internet which gives you information about multiple locations with its photos where the dead drops are installed/placed.

One of the largest databases is https://deaddrops.com/db-map-2/.

Once you find USB drive at your desired location, you can do anything such as deleting files from it, copying it or adding your own.

In New Zealand, the first, dead drop was found in the Manchester Street. There are over 1500 dead drops over the planet in various continents. In total these dead drops contain over 27212 GB of data.

Possible New Zealand dead drops.

I am just sharing this information for your knowledge, make sure you do not do any illegal activity using this.