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by dr4g0n 4120 days ago
> If you spot a USB flash drive cemented into a wall or kerb, you may have stumbled across a Dead Drop, part of a global art project borrowing tricks from the world of espionage

Or, you might have stumbled across 240VAC wired to a USB connector.

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I wonder if that would be worse than carefully crafted malware.
Since sharing USB flash drives is pretty much the equivalent of having digital unprotected sex anyway, I'm sure you'll get that soon enough.

And it can get much, much worse than plain old viruses too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuruzFqMgIw