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by sketerpot 5865 days ago
Why would any computer automatically run programs on USB sticks? It just seems like a really obvious security hole for negligible benefit.
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mambodog 5865 days ago
Because... Windows? Plenty of thumbdrive and portable harddrive manufactures make use of this 'feature' to show a splash menu/crapware launcher on insertion of the drive, so I guess they like the idea.
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