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What, you expect the flash drives they hand out for free at trade shows to be decent quality?
They are intended to be used to distribute advertising materials, not be rewritten multiple times.
E-waste, I say no to these same as I say no to straws, or plastic forks for takeout.
A business card with a link to the content would be a lot less wasteful.
Yep, and everyone understands a QR code these days
I remember some kid at a job fair in college handing out his resume on flash drives. I remember one of the booths saying “yeah, that’s not getting read.”
It'd be an awful security risk if they did. You can't trust that the USB stick contains the resume to begin with.
A smart kid would have written a Stuxnet type malware that finds its way to any payroll system and adds him silently to it.
A smarter kid would then have it auto email their cyber dept with their resume and point out the vulnerability, and have their malware autoremove himself from the system before getting paid so he doesn't go to jail for it. And even then, it's illegal and a risky move just to try to get a job.
Taking the joke a little too seriously, huh?
Smarter, or delusional?
Wasn't that an actual plot device used over and over in Mr Robot?
Also in real life, although more with "lost" USB sticks, than handing them out as part of a resume (although the effect would be the same).
If people encounter an unlabelled USB stick, they'll often try and plug it into to discern whose it was. So if you put some malware on it, you can infect a network that you might not normally be aware of.
Since their brand is on it, yeah. I would expect that if the company wants my business, they wouldn't put their name on shit quality products. Especially if it can lead to their would-be customers losing data. It kind of baffles me that they think this is a good way to impress me.