IT security: strange flashdrives

5/18/2016

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PC World (May 18) -- Maybe you know not to plug strange USB drives into your computer, but trends indicate that most people think nothing of it. In a recent experiment, a group of researchers from the U. of I., University of Michigan and Google, dropped nearly 300 USB thumb drives around six campus locations and found that at least 45 percent of them were plugged into a computer and perused by the person who found them.


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This story was published May 18, 2016.