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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’d be an awful security risk if they did.

Wasn't that an actual plot device used over and over in Mr Robot?

[–] T156 1 points 10 months ago

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.