Is it...
..on Youtube yet?
A group of Argentinian schoolkids copped a righteous eyeful of smut last week when their female biology* teacher handed them a USB memory stick containing a couple of vids of her going hammer and tongs with her boyfriend. According to the Diario Democracia, innocent kiddies at the La Escuela Media Nº 1 "Manuel Dorrego", in the …
Probably a good idea to keep work and pleasure usb sticks strictly separated, and clearly labeled as to which is which. There's a reason admins tend to label things like they were called "Edd".
You know, amid all the talk about securing, mac frameworks, and so on, how about a simple meta label like "adult material" and a way to tag the stick as "suitable for minors only", so that the operating software can warn you that you're about to store that smut on the wrong stick? Could do much the same with other labels. Of course all that requires preparation of the same kind as looking at the stick you're about to write to and reading the label you've affixed to it yourself, but it seems like a simple but useful tool that wouldn't require too much resources to make happen.
Also not something I'd restrict to certain file types. There's plenty besides pix and video that might benefit. Like, oh, blueprints, confidential files, that sort of thing.
Pack it in with the meta-info like access rights, owner, timestamps, that sort of thing. You can probably already do much of the thing on systems that support ACLs. Problem is that FAT doesn't support it and there's no universal standard among the systems that could. Then again FAT is getting a bit long in the tooth and we could use a replacement, and standards can always be made up on the spot; the trick is getting people to agree it's a good thing and joining in on the deal.
What matters is a bit of meta-info that can be used to make the system say "you sure about that?" or even just block it in the more draconic of centrally administered systems. You'd still have to tag the files with that label or it won't work, of course.
We had a guy who had some work stuff on his USB - innocently put it into work PC to copy the files off....
Work scanner got to work in background checking files... and 10 mins later (usb back in his bag by now) security appeared, and he was marched off site after working for employer for 10 years.
- scanner checked for certain file names, and unfortunately for him he had some pr0n on there with names like 'lezzer 69', 'blow job1', etc...
poor bastard.