FlashPatch: spreading software updates over flash drives in under-connected regions

Authors:
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs;Jay Chen
Affiliations:
Stanford University;NYU Abu Dhabi
Venue:
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We present the design and implementation of FlashPatch, a system which exploits the ubiquity of USB drives---normally a vector for virus transmission---to facilitate the distribution of software updates. Our system spreads software updates to offline machines by having the updates "piggy-back" on the existing circulation of USB flash drives. We discuss the techncial and ethical issues involved in the deployment of such a system and we describe the results of preliminary field testing in rural Ghana.