My Father Found A Flash Drive On The Floor At Costco

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Hi Everyone.:)

My father was at Costco earlier today and found a SanDisk Cruzer Edge 4GB Flash Drive on the floor. I'm tempted to check it out, but I have never used one before, and don't know if or what it contains. With my luck, it's some Secret Service classified honeysuckle that could land me in prison. Below is a link to images that look exactly like it. Is there any advice you can give as to what I should do with it? I admit that I am curious to know what's on it, but am afraid to check.

Any thoughts?


https://www.google.ca/#hl=en&sugexp...pw.r_qf.&fp=5af245a4192e1d72&biw=1440&bih=785
 
that's one of the leading ways to spread a virus

you should NEVER put a flash drive (or any other removable media storage device) of unknown original into your computer

christ, what if it's child porn or something?

i'd have never picked it up in the first place

flush it
 
go to a computer that's on display at the store and put it in there. you might get lucky and they have the computer set to read the flash drive.
 
Yeah hit an Internet Cafe or something first just to be safe. I doubt people would carry around virus ridden drives though.
 
gas to drive to best buy: $5

price to buy new flash drive: $5

the peace of mind that comes from not downloading a virus or kiddie porn onto your computer: priceless
 
I know it seems like such a waste, but what if Trent was right, and it had kiddy porn on it? If an ID saw that on my computer, my life as I now know it right now, would be over. When it comes to things like that, whether you are guilty or not, the stigma will never go away. There would be tons of people who would believe that I'm guilty no matter what the court said.

I'm not gambling with my freedom and my family's honor.
 
Good job for smashing the flash drive. I think it most likely contained something boring anyway.... a student's assignments? A shopper's photos that were brought in for printing? Very low chance of anything interesting - not worth the risk of infecting your computer with a virus! Your dad might have returned it to the customer service desk at that store, but whoever lost it would have looked for it right away, not days later...
 
Could have been a $10-15 dollar flash drive, and the information within could have been worth more. It would seem easy enough to have access to a computer which you can isolate any possibility of a virus; while the loss of information is potentially the loss of far more gain.

Ah well, too late to discuss now.
 
Could have been a $10-15

True. Also could have had illegal info. It's the Could Have part that I'm not willing to take a chance on.
 
Next time you find a flash drive take it to the customer service desk. I wear a flashdrive on my keychain with all my assigments on it. If I lost that it'd be bad for me.

It wasn't yours anyways.
 

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