New cache types at opencaching.us

[glorkar]

Two new cache types have been created at http://www.opencaching.us.

Guest Book Cache:

The Guest Book cache is a cache that shows the location of an existing guest book (or you can create a new one). Guest Books are often found in welcome centers, hotels, etc. The guest book should be open to the public so visitors can sign it. The guest book should not be temporary such as at a wedding, funeral or special event. When submitting a Guest Book cache listing, you should include the coordinates, the hours that it is accessible and details about the location that it is in. Be sure to select all appropriate attributes when submitting the cache.

To log a Guest Book Cache find, simply visit the site and sign the guest book. Return here and give us the details of your find and what you wrote in the guest book.

Dead Drop (USB) Cache:

A USB cache is simply a USB thumb drive attached to or embedded into a wall, building, curb, etc. It must be accessible to everyone and in a public place. It may be placed indoors but cannot be in a place with an age or sex restriction (bars, bathrooms, etc). Permission must be granted by the property owner before you permanently attach a USB cache. Wikipedia

Each USB cache is installed empty except for a readme.txt file and a logbook.txt file. The readme.txt is a file explaining the project and the logbook.txt file is where you sign your name and leave your comments. See Downloads.

You may share data via USB caches, however it is expressly forbidden for USB caches to contain commercial, pornographic, illegal or malicious content. All content must be suitable for all ages! If you find a USB cache with inappropriate content, you are encouraged to delete that content immediately. Do not delete the readme.txt or logbook.txt files, though they may be freely edited if they contain inappropriate content.

When submitting a USB Cache, be sure to specify the capacity of the USB drive. For example, 512MB, 2GB, 4GB, etc. Also, please remember to assign all pertinent attributes to the cache.

[glorkar]

I personally like the concept of the dead drop cache type, but am just not sure of the security aspect of it. If I were to ever find one I think I would get a “throw-away” type laptop (ie: under a $100) with absolutely no personal info on it.
Although I guess some of the new netbooks run Ubantu which is Linux based and practically impervious to viruses.

[EnergySaver]

my prediction … the next generation of Garmin’s will have a USB port to download the need info to these caches.

[glorkar]

Remember though, this is opencaching.us, not opencaching.com. Opencaching.us has no affiliation with Garmin. Although that would be pretty nifty if they did integrate that feature 🙂

[mongo1965]

I had found the above site when I first discovered geocaching but have not been back because it did not show many caches around is this still a relative new site?

[glorkar]

It officially “opened” in August of this year. So yup, still pretty new.

[Barry Butrymowicz]

There is no way in H _ _ _ that I would put a unknown Flash drive into my computer. That has to be the most lamebrain thing I have heard of. I can smell the virus from here.

[Mister Greenthumb]

What happened to geocaching in the woods where it is supposed to be done. These new opencaching ideas sound like more types of hides that will make cachers look suspicious and jeopardize the game.

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[Team Black-Cat]

Wow… Is it called a “drop dead” cache because your PC dies after plugging the usb drive into it? This is just a bad idea. I could make life very interesting for some future finder if I had a more evil bent…

Anyone that thinks that Linux is impervious to viruses has been misinformed. A false sense of security is worse than a lack of security. Lots of nasty stuff can still be done within the confines of a given user’s privilege level.

[glorkar]

@Mister Greenthumb wrote:

What happened to geocaching in the woods where it is supposed to be done. These new opencaching ideas sound like more types of hides that will make cachers look suspicious and jeopardize the game.

I suppose somebody signing a guest book does look pretty suspicious.

[EnergySaver]

@sweetlife wrote:

There is no way in H _ _ _ that I would put a unknown Flash drive into my computer. That has to be the most lamebrain thing I have heard of. I can smell the virus from here.

I agree. And even assume for a minute that there is NO virus on the flash drive. Thing about this … a Flash Drive sitting outside in various weather conditions for months or years. (1) Will it actually still work. (2) Do I even want to expose the connection port on my laptop to the dirt film and/or rust that will be on the device.

Seems like a no win situation to me. The CHIRP concept I get … but not this. But what happens when someone dirt ball figures out how to re-code a CHIRP to trash people’s GPSr units.

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