You found a random usb stick and plugged it in?
To USB, or not to USB
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Listen, not all of us are proud of everything we plug our holes with.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
I’ll have you know that I put my entire OS installation on a broken USB stick that I found on a parking lot.
The plastic case keeps falling off, but it works fine.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
One of the classic blunders!
… Unless they’re using an airgapped device or carefully sandboxed VM (even still lol) to satisfy that curiosity.
Ugh I admit I’d be curious lol.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
…yes? What did you think it could be? A larval hidden unvaccinated Russian that will activate and drink your blood?
NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
There are tons of ways to exploit a computer via a flash drive like that. Lots of viruses exist that would immediately install themselves upon the drive getting recognized. Famously Iran has a nuclear power plant taken offline by a random flash drive somebody plugged in, but aside Deon state level threats they can also just steal your financial details and personal info
riskable@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Some day, a lucky archeologist will unearth the one true archive from an innocent-looking tarball.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
(X) Doubt.
He won’t know what to do with a tarball anymore than I do
jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
as long as a paper manual exists…
(tar -xzvf <file> btw, the dash before xzvf is optional)
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
aeiou@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I love mystery flash drives
I once found one near a high school loaded with hilariously terrible naruto x pokemon romantic fanfics
and one that had like $150 in dogecoin
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
time to buy a few hundred usb sticks, fill them with zip bombs, and bury them in random place.
FUCK YOU future archeologists
Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Their triple quantum computers implemented in their brain wants to say fuck you, too.
morto@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Indeed, archaeology is created all the time. I just did an archaeological work a couple of days ago, when I decided to tidy my room
gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think that’s just finding a usb stick from around a decade ago
zout@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
You could get lucky and find gold AKA bitcoin.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
At what point does it stop being archaeology and starts becoming computer science?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_archaeology
The computational archaeologists run archaeo.social for Mastodon/Matrix. :) They are a rad group.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I lost a thumbdrive full of adult furry content in Auckland. Gotta wonder how that story turned out.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
SHIT! Somebody finally found it! Man, I hope I didn’t have anything on there with my personal info!
kevinsbacon@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Mmmm forbidden chocolate bar.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
when I was in highschool after a bad storm an iPod charger was sticking out of some dirt half buried. Wonder how long ago it was dropped, how different schools were back then
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
One day, an archeologist will find that one thumb drive I lost in 2016 and could never find again
kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least you are not the guy who threw away hit bitcoin wallet, are you?
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dude’s gone full tilt psychotic as a result and is selling shares to excavate the landfill it’s in (he’ll never find it intact and usable, but his life is forever ruined by his refusal to give up)