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Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gets-me-going dept.

Bruce Schneier's blog has a bit about a subject that gets my blood boiling too. He says "I'm really getting tired of stories like this: Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers... People get USB sticks all the time. The problem isn't that people are idiots... The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks."

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  1. Makes sense to me actually by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, I mean, I'm not going to risk MY computer to some random virus infection. Of course I'm going to use an office computer!

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  2. Re:Only one way to fix this by cdtullio · · Score: 3, Funny

    The way to fix this problem, is to start dropping pistols with nipples attached to the end. That would thin the herd.

  3. Re:Only one way to fix this by sorak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Judging by the contents of my own key drives, there is almost never any user-identifiable information on these things. Any "I was just trying to see who's it was" argument is probably just cover for "I wanted a free key drive and didn't think to format it before I used it..."

    Judging by the content of my own key drives, most people watch too much porn.