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I lost a thumbdrive full of adult furry content in Auckland. Gotta wonder how that story turned out.
One day, an archeologist will find that one thumb drive I lost in 2016 and could never find again
At least you are not the guy who threw away his bitcoin wallet, are you?
James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (worth over £500 million/$900M+ as of 2025) in 2013
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)
Yep, kinda sad, his life being consumed by that one mistake and not getting therapy and moving on.
Seriously, when he probably could have used that energy to grift like all the other shitcoin rug pulls.
You found a random usb stick and plugged it in?
Listen, not all of us are proud of everything we plug our holes with.
…yes? What did you think it could be? A larval hidden unvaccinated Russian that will activate and drink your blood?
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 had a nuclear power plant taken offline by a random flash drive somebody plugged in, but aside from state level threats they can also just steal your financial details and personal info
So let me get this straight. You live in an average size North American city with a population of about a million. There have been billions, perhaps zillions of USB thumb drives manufactured over the decades. Every day there are thousands of potential situations where a completely normal and anonymous schmuck like you and me has the right conditions to drop a USB key. Maybe you had one in your backpack and it fell out. Maybe you have a hole in your pants. This can happen every day, in every city.
So now you’re walking down the street and see a USB key on the ground, and your first thought is “IRAAAAAN!! THEY WANT TO STEAL THE $12.15 IN MY CHECKINGS ACCOUNT!!! BECAUSE THEY KNOW MY EVERY MOVEMENT AND LOCATION TO PLANT THIS LUDICROUSLY COMPLEX AND CONVOLUTED USB KEY APPROACH TO $12!!!”
I suppose you watch the news and see a picture of a coronavirus and think “My God, it’s a WWII naval mine and IT’S COMING RIGHT AT MEEEEEEE!!!”
You see a USB key on the ground, you pick it up and plug it in. The unvaccinated Russian larva can be sterilized by sunlight.
It’s more akin to clicking on every ad you see on the web. Sure you might not get a virus from lots of them but the risk is real and it’s good practice to just not do that. It’s a real and frequently exploited attack vector, it’s just good practice for anybody with a semblance of concern about digital security
Some day, a lucky archeologist will unearth the one true archive from an innocent-looking tarball.
(X) Doubt.
They won’t know what to do with a tarball anymore than I do
I think that’s just finding a usb stick from around a decade ago
time to buy a few hundred usb sticks, fill them with zip bombs, and bury them in random place.
FUCK YOU future archeologists
Their triple quantum computers implemented in their brain wants to say fuck you, too.
