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June 29, 2011 04:05 pm

Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story

Bruce Schneier's blog has a bit about a subject that gets my blood boiling too. He says "I'm really getting tired of stories like this: Computer disks and USB sticks were dropped in parking lots of government buildings and private contractors, and 60% of the people who picked them up plugged the devices into office computers... People get USB sticks all the time. The problem isn't that people are idiots... The problem is that the OS trusts random USB sticks."

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