{"id":713,"date":"2010-11-01T21:51:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtom.wordpress.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2010-11-01T21:51:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:51:04","slug":"modern-day-dead-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/modern-day-dead-drops\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Day &#8220;Dead Drops&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A\u00a0<strong>dead drop<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>dead letter box<\/strong>, is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dead_drop\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wondering why I&#8217;m referencing something that sounds like a 1950s spy technique on my chic\u00a0and up-to-date blog? Because\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.datenform.de\/\">Aram Bartholl<\/a> has created modern day &#8220;dead drops&#8221; throughout NYC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5126739968_1a75759ab9_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" title=\"USB Stick in Bricks\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5126739968_1a75759ab9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, if you see someone awkwardly leaning up against a wall, be aware that they might be partaking in secret file sharing. As someone mentioned in the comments section, you might want to bring a cable so you don&#8217;t break off the USB stick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5126139769_e5217e6758_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-715 alignnone\" title=\"5126139769_e5217e6758_z\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5126139769_e5217e6758_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kmtom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/5126139769_e5217e6758_z.jpg\"><\/a>My only concern here is about viruses. What happens if someone is malicous and places something on here to infect any machine that gets attached to it? It&#8217;s great idea, but I won&#8217;t be running to NYC to plug in my computer! I&#8217;ll stick to writing my name on small pieces of paper<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-miss.com\/2010\/11\/%E2%80%9Cdead-drops%E2%80%9D.html\" target=\"_blank\">SwissMiss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A\u00a0dead drop or\u00a0dead letter box, is a location used to secretly pass items between two people, without requiring them to meet.&#8221; &#8211; Wikipedia Wondering why I&#8217;m referencing something that sounds like a 1950s spy technique on my chic\u00a0and up-to-date blog? Because\u00a0Aram Bartholl has created modern day &#8220;dead drops&#8221; throughout NYC. So, if you see someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[34,64,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ktomdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}