Hi Olga, Thanks for this info, I really like the idea that there is a kind of peer autonomy and dedication to privateness. Ironically it declares an openness.
"Becoming a super-spy isn't easy. Like any undercover operation, most of the functionality of deadSwap depends on the participants doing it right. Learn the terms in this manual well and play your role as intended for best results." I traced this project to a group called 'Telekommunisten' - http://www.telekommunisten.net , an interesting bunch. They are an independent group who value a project or mini=movement called Venture Communism "a project to research, experiment with, and initiate social enterprises, particularly a rent-sharing based proposed form called a Venture Commune. The project also encourages dialogue and investigation of alternative economies and workers struggle against private property . The goal is to promote understanding of the relationship between distribution of productive assets, political power and global exploitation and poverty and to investigate how worker-controlled enterprises can contribute to solving this problem, as well as to put such ideas into practice." marc > ********* deadSwap: A Game Of Cloak And Data ************* > > deadSwap is an offline file sharing system where participants covertly > pass a USB stick from one to another. The route of the USB memory > stick and the identity of the other participants is not known by the > users but controlled by local, independently operated SMS gateways > that are kept as a carefully shared secret by their users. > > deadSwap is a social experiment exploring the possibilities of > creating an entirely off-line file-sharing and communications platform > where people pass a USB memory stick from one to another. > > The coordination of the passing-on of the stick is done through an > anonymous SMS gateway, meaning that the system does not require > Internet availability and also that, with certain precautions, it can > be a very private system that is quite difficult to monitor. > > http://www.deadswap.net/ > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
