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Thank you both.

I guess he was very secure in his mind that he was never going to be captured or killed if he kept it on his person. What an idiot.

[AmishDude]

He might have figured the flash drive was more sensitive an instrument than his body.

Or maybe he just figured he didn't care what happened after he died.

[HardStarboard]

The Zark used to claim he wore a suicide belt at all times to avoid being taken alive.

Evidently he forgot the suicide belt and substituted a thumb drive.

And we got him.....alive, but only for few minutes, and the thumb drive was the prize!!