Reply to post: Re: Did you accept the USB?

Between you, me and that dodgy-looking USB: A little bit of paranoia never hurt anyone

Martin Gregorie

Re: Did you accept the USB?

Acceptable answers to:

1. Did you accept a free USB stick at the entrance ?

2. Are you going to put it in your device ?

are

(a) No

(b) Yes, and I'm going to reformat it before I mount it or give it to anybody.

Anything else shows insufficient paranoia. But of course (b) requires that you know how to reformat it and that you are running an OS that gives you the option of reformatting a USB device before its filing system is accessed.

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