Dead drop

A dead drop is like a secret hiding spot where you leave a message or something valuable for someone else to find later. It's like playing hide-and-seek, but instead of hiding yourself, you're hiding an important thing.

Imagine you're playing a game of spies with your friends. You want to give a secret message to a friend, but you don't want anyone else to see it. So you hide the message somewhere that only your friend knows how to find. The place you hide it is called a dead drop.

Dead drops are often used by spies, activists or people who need to exchange information, but they don't want anyone to know about it. They might hide something like a USB drive, a note, or a package in a specific location, like under a park bench or behind a loose brick in a wall. Then the other person comes along later and picks it up, leaving their own message or item for the first person to find. It's like a secret communication system that keeps things private and confidential.

Just like in the game of spies, the dead drop exchange is very secretive and mysterious, and it's something that only the people involved know about. It's a way of sharing information without anyone else knowing about it. So when you hear the term "dead drop," you can think of it like a secret spot where people leave messages for each other like a game of hide-and-seek.