My Father Found A Flash Drive On The Floor At Costco

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SophiaGrace said:
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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100% right
you should not pick up anything that does not belong to you.
if you must do it, you must find the owner.
be honest please, that may save a soul or help someone to get out of troubles or even put yourself in great troubles.
4GB flash drive is not that expensive type of stuff, and if even so, you should not do that....

I suggest that you or your father go back and put it in the same place where he found it.
 
a_perfumer said:
SophiaGrace said:
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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100% right
you should not pick up anything that does not belong to you.
if you must do it, you must find the owner.
be honest please, that may save a soul or help someone to get out of troubles or even put yourself in great troubles.
4GB flash drive is not that expensive type of stuff, and if even so, you should not do that....

I suggest that you or your father go back and put it in the same place where he found it.
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I'm afraid it's a little too late for that.
 
A safe way of testing for viruses is to set up a virtual machine on your computer, then isolate the drive so it only opens in the vm. if it has a virus you can wipe the stick and reload a previous snapshot of the os before the virus loaded.
 
that is true

however, me thinks viewing kiddie porn or terrorist training material even on a virtual machine is still a no-no

just saying, this is the point that people are glancing over time and time again

virus is not the only danger

* goes back to his vmware to run linux, windows 8, and windows 7 *
 
LoneKiller said:
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.
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Which you could have brought to the attention of authorities, perhaps even have saved lives and instead have missed out on a chance to do some good in the world :(
 
Trent said:
that is true

however, me thinks viewing kiddie porn or terrorist training material even on a virtual machine is still a no-no

just saying, this is the point that people are glancing over time and time again

virus is not the only danger

* goes back to his vmware to run linux, windows 8, and windows 7 *
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Well its still fairly safe. After you crank out a knuckle baby from the kiddie porn and pass on the IED plans to your terrorist buddies, you can format the stick several times and use it for your own stuff. But don't you dare put copyrighted material like music or movies on it... sick fucks.
 
All this talk about secret documents, kiddie porn and viruses (Well, I suppose the virus idea is plausible), why would anyone be carrying such illegal files round a supermarket?? I probably would have picked it up an handed in because there's a chance (however slim) that it could have contained important information to somebody, I.E work/uni related documents or something, I know I'd be glad to get something back like that I'd lost..

And so what if it has all these illegal files on it anyway, just disable auto run, slam it into USB an that's it, nothing runs/moves on or off it unless you do it. Stuff like that isn't gonna download itself magically onto your computer, then simply do a low level format ("Format /u DRIVE:" for old school command) an done, 1 pass formatting is enough for any typical data recovery software not to be able to recover anything, but I suppose the hammer you used made certain anyway...
 
Guys. Don't you think this overdoing it a bit? It's not like it was the Holy Grail we're talking about. No matter what anyone says here, ultimately we will never know what was on it. It could have been anything. No sense continuing this thread of pure conjecture.
 
i think you should have vacuum-sealed it in a safe place and taken out an ad in the local newspaper for "lost flash drive"
 
I think this is an important issue that warrants more discussion. I mean, there have only been 35 posts about this - we need to talk it out more before it goes for a vote.
 
I only read the 1st page in this thread and then jumped to the last, so there's much more to add from my perspective =)

anyways,
I work in a hotel and i find usb flash drives all the time. we usualy leave them in lost&found for about 2 months before it hits the trash, and I rescue them all!
I usualy take a quick peak on the public computer and then format it. If I were to ever find child porn on one, then I wouldn't have any fears.. i would call the cops and help them figure out which room it came from.
and you never know.. it could be prince harry's secret porn video on there and make you rich! lol
too bad usualy it's some office presentation files or soccer schedules =/
 

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