Posted on 04/11/2016 2:26:42 PM PDT by markomalley
What could go wrong?
That’s like snacking on the discarded french fries left on the fast food table next to you. Ewwww!!!
Well duh. It’s like saying you have to program people to pick up money. I don’t think so! The researchers don’t know how many drives were viewed without a broswer, either.
I’ve heard of one company doing classified work that scattered USB drives in its parking lot. Any employee who plugged one into a company computer was fired on the spot.
The users said that, for the most part, they were acting in good faith. 68 per cent of the users said they were only accessing the drive in order to find its owner, though a “handful” of respondents said they were planning to keep the USB drive for themselves.
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Baloney. They were all looking for that free porm.
Woo Hoo.
*They found some all right. Under age porn. Now the FBI wants a word with them.
That sounds like a good test.
Sounds like a relatively painless way to make staff reductions for the next crop of H1B’s.
Except citizenship is required to work in such a facility. No H1-Bs.
We have a couple of dedicated computers at work that do only two things. Scan for bad stuff and list the files on the drive. That way, you not only keep any bad stuff from getting into a company computer, by looking at the list of files, you stand a good chance of finding the owner of the lost drive.
I’ve done it many times.
I never see any lying around
My son did have his 200 dollar plus Bose headphones fall out the FJ door recently
It was 10pm or so and we drove back 8 miles to a near empty lot and there they were right where they fell out in perfect shape
We got lucky
Well, people love finding free stuff... Especially if it’s someone elses personal private stuff.
Apparently that includes free virus’s.
Of course, firing on the spot wouldn't be an option since the employee would have to be kept on just long enough to train the H1B.
If I find a 64 GB USB drive, you damn right I’ll plug it in.
If I cant ID the owner, finder’s keepers!
My PC doesn’t run anything off of one automatically, and I’m not going to click on .exe, .bat, or HTML files as a matter of years old habit.
I plug in found flash drives, but I do it at a public library computer. I look for identifying information and have found owners two out of three times. “Your flash drive is at the desk in the ____ library.”
Put one in my own computer? No way!
A brand new 64GB USB3.0 flash drive will cost you less than twenty bucks.
Millennials at a university, no wonder they have such a high rate of STD infections.
I've read about cases where these devices have been hacked to identify themselves as USB keyboards, and then they start sending keystrokes automatically when they're plugged in.
Of course they are! Hoping to find some home-made pron!
Unless you know a good document counterfeiter. If you are useful to the ruling class, they will even appoint one for you.
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