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If you're cold they're cold [Image of USB flash drive laying in grass] Put them in the computer at your work

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Couldn't a company be easily be hacked if someone put a monitoring program in a usb and just casually drops it near the entrance of an office?

Employees might be curious enough to try plugging it in.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, it's a common attack vector