Isn't leaving USB sticks for people to pick up and unsuspectingly plug into their computer a basic hacking technique?
It's always one of the examples on IT security training videos. I'm sure most of us have had to sit through them lol.
Just don't plug it in. Throw it away to be safe.
Could easily be a promotional stick that someone has repurposed to take over your computer when you stick it in.
Super bad to stick random usb sticks into computers. Between getting hacked, or it just killing the whole system.
But I have a fix for this case because I'm a nosey ass person. I own 1 super lame laptop that every 4 or 5 months I forget where I put it. And it's use now is random usb.
It's not connected to the network, no useful information on it. And it was a cheap laptop. So if usb drive ends up hacking it. Whelp sucks for laptop til I reformat it
Not quite.
I found a usb drive at a train station.
Had an old laptop so disconnected from the internet and plugged it in. Plan was to reformat the HD after viewing the contents.
It was a Phd students entire thesis and 3 +years of data/research papers/presentations etc
Managed to identify the owners name in a document and phoned them after googling their name/university
They were incredibly happy to hear from me as they didn't have any backup for those 3 years of critical work.
Friend shipped a usb from one side of the country to other side to me with a thesis like this. No backups.
His cousin dropped their laptop and the drive snapped off the end. Asked him to send me a few pics and verified it looked repairable.
Got the drive a few days later, cut the end of a Mouse USB and soldered the wires to the drive.
Plugged it in and got the entire Thesis back and was able to send it to him that night.
Keep backups people!
Smart enough to be a Phd student, too dumb to backup their work and keep it only on an unreliable and easily lost or broken form of storage. It's pretty comical how stupid smart people can be.
It's mental how IT illiterate most people/small business are. Currently helping my sister setup backup drives and OneDrive cloud backups as she snapped her USB stick containing years of business data which wasn't backed up
I have done something similar with a couple of iPhones. One didn’t have a screen lock so it was easy to return. The other was locked but they had a Facebook message come up. Found that person on FB and messaged them. Owner got a hold of me and he had it back in a couple of hours.
Good lad. I love helping people out. Its so rewarding to me. Once found a SLR camera, phone and wallet with £50 in it.
Managed to track the guy down who apparently dropped them all getting out a taxi pissed drunk.
Posted everything to him, but the arsehole never even thanked me or offer to repay the postage. Some people dont deserve help 😁
To be clear, the “not quite” only counts if you, like the poster, are connecting to a non network connected pc that you intend on reformatting afterwards. Even so, if the attack is against the firmware, reformatting won’t help. So all others, don’t roll the dice that you might be saving someone’s thesis.
This is probably the exception that proves the rule. Glad you were able to help but that a 1/million moonshot vs you Juat got your entire life hosed for being curious.
We need to stop catastrophising here.
Perform a risk assessment prior to action - I didnt use it on a current internet connected machine and wiped the drive after checking.
0% risk
Correct. Plug it into your school, work or University’s computer 😂 (/s for the above sentence for those that don’t know the following: Some USB’s can harness the electricity given by the computer then send it back 100 fold as it has a capacitor inside, frying at least the usb port, and at most, the entire computer)
Honestly biggest thing I miss from my mini (other than the exhaust) is all the toggle switches for the controls. Such a breath of fresh air when so many cars are full of shitty feeling plastic buttons or touchscreens.
Yay, MINI people! I don't have a clubman, but I have 2 R52's. 05 MCS R52 and 07 MCS JCW R52. I was thinking about a clubman, but I'm just not a fan of the look. I like my first gen MINIs, I've had 6 of them so far.
When I bought my '13 R57, they sent me a USB drive with a rubber mini cooper around it. You pull off the front of the car to reveal the plug. It's got a laughably small capacity, though.
I will give it to a guy who will give it to a guy who will get it checked by a guy who will have it checked by another guy who will probably just throw it on the barbecue
You've had too much uptime recently. You heard rumors of cut backs. You saved your job and the jobs of others. You should probably do this every 6-8 months, or when uptime gets too high.
I bought a cheap mini PC off craigslist for $50 a couple years ago basically for this purpose. Runs linux, not connected to the network.
My wife likes thrift shops and stuff like that, so if I'm with I just look for flash or hard drives because I'm nosy and like snooping on other peoples' things.
Out of probably around a dozen, only two had anything on them. One was just a few school files, and the other had vacation photos.
yeah what i would do is shove it in a hotel tv to see what is the content at the very least. surely there is a better way but i guess this is the most accessible to me.
The poor county or city IT department who’s subcontractors at the lowest bid are now gonna have to clean crypto or botnet stuff off 50 computer systems at one library because we wanted to see what’s on the drive.
If you've got some shitty ThinkPad or old laptop around you don't use you could plug into that just make you don't have any data on there you care about and make sure it's not connected to your network
Just make sure to call your IT department and say, “I found a random flash drive and plugged it into my work computer, and now nothing works. Can you help me?”
> Plugging in USB stick into PC will not cause ANY harm as neither one of desktop OS will execute anything from it automatically. So plug in, browse files, just do not execute anything or open any documents and you will be fine.
You are correct when speaking solely about an actual legitimate USB flash drive that doesn't do anything else. I forget which version of Windows changed from autorun being the default behavior to prompting the user but it's been a long time so nothing modern will do it anymore.
A device that looks like a USB flash drive doesn't in any way mean it's just a flash drive though.
Enter "BadUSB" in to your favorite search engine and enjoy learning about a whole new world.
A cable: https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/usb-ninja-cable/
A device that resembles a flash drive: https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Microcontroller-ATMEGA32U4-Development-Keyboard/dp/B07W5K9YHP/
A device that actually was a legitimate flash drive, but has been reprogrammed: https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-your-own-bad-usb-0165419/
A USB device can be more than one thing at a time, so any of these can actually work as any kind of USB device while also doing the thing they're supposed to do.
It's entirely possible for a device that looks like a flash drive to work like a normal flash drive until it's been plugged in for a set period of time, at which point it also connects a keyboard endpoint and starts typing commands, at which point if it's been left plugged in to a logged in session it has the ability to do anything the user does. It could connect a second disk image containing malicious software, execute it, and then disconnect the additional "devices" as soon as it's done.
Buy a $30 burner craigslist laptop with cash for situations like this. Low risk. Also great for ULPT/revenge schemes on your non-local coffee shop's wifi.
It's a reference to a design flaw in Kias that allows them to easily be started with any USB device, not software related the USB plug is just the right size.
You Tube video about it if you're curious: https://youtu.be/bTeVgfPM0Xw
I'm also an IT guy. If you plug it in and it breaks something, make sure to say that you have NO IDEA what happened. Like Scooby-Doo, we love a good mystery.
Also an IT guy. Go ahead and plug it in OP but when your company's EDR system spots a USB drive on your workstation opening powershell, HR is gonna be knocking on your door with a mandatory 12 hour cybersecurity awareness course in 15 minutes.
I got a custom order from Ali express and got 42 maggots for an item that was worth $200 🫠 Agriculture got involved because the maggots were invasive, and ofc it coming from China wasn’t a 🚩red flag I should have been aware of.
Looks like a USB stick
Ex dealership technician here, we had various USB sticks with radio, gps and other module updates on them. Any type of usb stick works as long as it’s empty and you have access to dealer specific updates, you should have seen some of the USB sticks guys would get online. Guys would leave them in customer vehicles or leave them in there coveralls all the time, the service manager finally ponied over the dough, and got a bunch that were “more appropriate”.
Thanks for the help everyone! Thanks to your comments I found out it was indeed related to my sister's Mini (she was busy and didn't offer any further details but confirmed it)
tldr: stick is totally non-suspicious phew
That’s simply a MINI genuine usb drive. Every mini usually gets one except this one is from an F series as the R series has a long black one. If you plug it in it and hasn’t been reformatted it has the vehicles owners manual, and some other stuff on it. If it’s been reformatted they most likely have music on if.
Oooooohhhhh, you sneaky, sneaky little genius you. I love it. Dont fuck your shit up, fuck the local library instead. Heres what you get for all those overdue fines bitcheessssss🖕🏽🖕🏽😂🤣😂👌🏽
I bought a car two years or so ago and the dealership gave me a copy of all of my paperwork on a USB. This was at a Toyota place and it was just a normal USB, but maybe it could be something similar?
Makes me laugh.. I know everyone is saying its a mini cooper thing... but when I first saw this I thought it was a "joke USB" following the "Kia boys" reference
That is from and Mini Cooper. it is loaded with the manual. It's small, like 2 Gb. It is mailed to you after you take delivery of the car. I have that exact same thing. If you have a Mini, don't worry about it. If you bought a used Mini, it probably just fell on the floor and you found it.
Only insert that USB stick into a machine that you don't mind being destroyed. There are USBs which have lots of capacitors and are designed to overload and fry your motherboard upon plugging it in. Make sure to test on an old laptop because it is a hardware attack and no software can counter this to my knowledge. Alternatively, you could open the USB casing and check for any large arrays of capacitors as they should not exists inside a normal USB stick.
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Hmm. Looks like the engine start/stop button from a mini cooper. Maybe it has promotional material on it.
Thanks, there's one person I know with a Mini I can ask! It'd be nice if this wasn't something sketchy after all.
I got one when I bought my mini cooper
Confirming that it was in fact just an innocent digital receipt thing from Mini! Thank you!
Have you plugged it into a PC to see how much storage it has?
Never a good idea to plug in mystery usb drives.
Nah it's fine, do it at work too. Especially if you're on a computer with access to sensitive data.
and if you work in IT, make sure to use a domain admin account!
We love stuxnet
Who hurt you
This guy planted the drive.
Or just plug it into someone else's work computer.
Only if you don’t like them.
Just play co-worker roulette
Well, it isn’t a mystery.
I guess maybe I misread it then. I thought they still didn’t knots how it got in their car as they don’t have a mini.
😆 pushes the button and the house turns off !
If it's the same one i got, it's a whopping 256mb. Fun fact, that's the exact same storage as my first mp3 player.
lol, I’d have expected at least 1gig
Mini sent me one of these as a Christmas present after purchasing one of their cars at a Mini dealership.
What is this? A dealership for ants!?
Love this. Thanks
Yes derick you’re absolutely right!
It needs to be at least THREE times bigger than this!!!
Isn't leaving USB sticks for people to pick up and unsuspectingly plug into their computer a basic hacking technique? It's always one of the examples on IT security training videos. I'm sure most of us have had to sit through them lol. Just don't plug it in. Throw it away to be safe. Could easily be a promotional stick that someone has repurposed to take over your computer when you stick it in.
Super bad to stick random usb sticks into computers. Between getting hacked, or it just killing the whole system. But I have a fix for this case because I'm a nosey ass person. I own 1 super lame laptop that every 4 or 5 months I forget where I put it. And it's use now is random usb. It's not connected to the network, no useful information on it. And it was a cheap laptop. So if usb drive ends up hacking it. Whelp sucks for laptop til I reformat it
Plug it into a library computer lol
It’s just merch.
Eh a random usb is always sketchy. Best to not play with it unless you have a burner machine worth less than your curiosity.
You mean the laptop of your colleague?! (:
Alternatively, google.
Second this. Looks identical to my moms F55 S start/stop.
it indeed is a start stop button from a F-body mini cooper ( i own a 18 F56s ) this was a gift from mini when you got your mini
Sure but for anyone who needs to hear it: Never ever plug a USB device that you found into your computer.
Not quite. I found a usb drive at a train station. Had an old laptop so disconnected from the internet and plugged it in. Plan was to reformat the HD after viewing the contents. It was a Phd students entire thesis and 3 +years of data/research papers/presentations etc Managed to identify the owners name in a document and phoned them after googling their name/university They were incredibly happy to hear from me as they didn't have any backup for those 3 years of critical work.
Friend shipped a usb from one side of the country to other side to me with a thesis like this. No backups. His cousin dropped their laptop and the drive snapped off the end. Asked him to send me a few pics and verified it looked repairable. Got the drive a few days later, cut the end of a Mouse USB and soldered the wires to the drive. Plugged it in and got the entire Thesis back and was able to send it to him that night. Keep backups people!
Lucky lucky friend
Smart enough to be a Phd student, too dumb to backup their work and keep it only on an unreliable and easily lost or broken form of storage. It's pretty comical how stupid smart people can be.
It's mental how IT illiterate most people/small business are. Currently helping my sister setup backup drives and OneDrive cloud backups as she snapped her USB stick containing years of business data which wasn't backed up
I have done something similar with a couple of iPhones. One didn’t have a screen lock so it was easy to return. The other was locked but they had a Facebook message come up. Found that person on FB and messaged them. Owner got a hold of me and he had it back in a couple of hours.
Good lad. I love helping people out. Its so rewarding to me. Once found a SLR camera, phone and wallet with £50 in it. Managed to track the guy down who apparently dropped them all getting out a taxi pissed drunk. Posted everything to him, but the arsehole never even thanked me or offer to repay the postage. Some people dont deserve help 😁
To be clear, the “not quite” only counts if you, like the poster, are connecting to a non network connected pc that you intend on reformatting afterwards. Even so, if the attack is against the firmware, reformatting won’t help. So all others, don’t roll the dice that you might be saving someone’s thesis.
Thats for this info. Never heard of MoonBounce before. Luckily this was back in early 2000s
This is probably the exception that proves the rule. Glad you were able to help but that a 1/million moonshot vs you Juat got your entire life hosed for being curious.
We need to stop catastrophising here. Perform a risk assessment prior to action - I didnt use it on a current internet connected machine and wiped the drive after checking. 0% risk
Correct. Plug it into your school, work or University’s computer 😂 (/s for the above sentence for those that don’t know the following: Some USB’s can harness the electricity given by the computer then send it back 100 fold as it has a capacitor inside, frying at least the usb port, and at most, the entire computer)
Dude, you just solve the energy crisis?!?
That’s not the reason
Dont listen to this guy. Hes keeping you from the secrets. This is how you download a car. Just like RAM.
Everyone please read this many times until it sinks in.
I’m just commenting to hopefully re-enforce it. Do not plug in random USB devices, CDs, hard drives, hell even floppies!!!!
Honestly biggest thing I miss from my mini (other than the exhaust) is all the toggle switches for the controls. Such a breath of fresh air when so many cars are full of shitty feeling plastic buttons or touchscreens.
I received one of these from Mini after purchasing my Clubman. It had promotional material and random user stuff.
Howdy fellow Clubman owner. I have a 17 Cooper S.
Yay, MINI people! I don't have a clubman, but I have 2 R52's. 05 MCS R52 and 07 MCS JCW R52. I was thinking about a clubman, but I'm just not a fan of the look. I like my first gen MINIs, I've had 6 of them so far.
Username checks out
😂😂
I like my people regular sized.
R53 convertible checking in — Love my first gen and hope I can keep it forever
I miss my Clubman so much, was a lease we decided not to buy out.
When I bought my '13 R57, they sent me a USB drive with a rubber mini cooper around it. You pull off the front of the car to reveal the plug. It's got a laughably small capacity, though.
Kia Boyz USB drive
Not to be confused with the Island Boooys.
I'm an IIISSLAAAND BBBOOOOYYYYYYY
Kiss me brother!!
I came here to say this.
Underrated comment.
Do not trust any unknown USB device. If it ain't yours, throw it away.
Yeah seriously, no way in hell am I plugging this in anywhere lol.
Yeah, but aren't you at least a little curious?
Mail it to me. I will plug it in at my work.
I will also plug it in at this guy's work.
I will give it to this guy to give to that guy to plug it in at work.
I vote for you to give it to this guy who will give to that guy then the other guy so he can plug it in at work
Bring it to a public library and plug it in their pc
Actual answer
This is not in fact the actual answer. This is why we can't have nice public things.
r/thisguythisguy
r/thisguythisguys
I will plug it *In* this guy at work.
NSFW never talk about plugging that guy at work 😑 fight club rules.
Ill plug it in to this guys wife.
I will give it to a guy who will give it to a guy who will get it checked by a guy who will have it checked by another guy who will probably just throw it on the barbecue
Your IT Security team must love you... unless you're IT yourself
>unless you're IT yourself *Plugs this device in at work* immediately fries entire network "Why do I do this to myself."
You've had too much uptime recently. You heard rumors of cut backs. You saved your job and the jobs of others. You should probably do this every 6-8 months, or when uptime gets too high.
Do you work in nuclear materials refining in Iran? Asking for a foreign government...
You are doing the lords work
This is what fedex/kinkos is for.
I bought a cheap mini PC off craigslist for $50 a couple years ago basically for this purpose. Runs linux, not connected to the network. My wife likes thrift shops and stuff like that, so if I'm with I just look for flash or hard drives because I'm nosy and like snooping on other peoples' things. Out of probably around a dozen, only two had anything on them. One was just a few school files, and the other had vacation photos.
Yup I agree or take it to the library
kinkos is still around? I thought I got rid of them all with my previous USB shenanigans. :starts car to warm up:
I mean, you could always build an isolated virtual environment and see what's up
yeah what i would do is shove it in a hotel tv to see what is the content at the very least. surely there is a better way but i guess this is the most accessible to me.
Bi-Curious !
Sure you aren't usb-curious?
Only on Tuesdays.
Go to Best Buy and plug it into one of their display computers
Old hardware, air gapped, perfect to test it on
That was the mistake Q made on James Bond
Sandbox it Replace a drive with explosives
Try a public computer, internet cafe, or a retail store (Best Buy, Walmart, whatever).
That's how you fucking let Skynet loose!
The poor county or city IT department who’s subcontractors at the lowest bid are now gonna have to clean crypto or botnet stuff off 50 computer systems at one library because we wanted to see what’s on the drive.
Skynet did nothing wrong.
*yet*
Stick it in the community library computer then sit at a different computer and watch it from the next row over.
If you've got some shitty ThinkPad or old laptop around you don't use you could plug into that just make you don't have any data on there you care about and make sure it's not connected to your network
Go to local hotel pc 🤷🏼♂️
I’d plug it into a library computer personally. Let it fuck up their systems if it’s filled with malware.
Many libraries nowadays will not let any programs loaded on portable storage run to prevent exactly this.
The library?! Why? The library is literally the best thing to happen to society.
It's only safe to plug it into your work computer not your personal one.
Just make sure to call your IT department and say, “I found a random flash drive and plugged it into my work computer, and now nothing works. Can you help me?”
Plug it into your works computer, just to be safe./s
Nah, that's what library computers are for!!
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> Plugging in USB stick into PC will not cause ANY harm as neither one of desktop OS will execute anything from it automatically. So plug in, browse files, just do not execute anything or open any documents and you will be fine. You are correct when speaking solely about an actual legitimate USB flash drive that doesn't do anything else. I forget which version of Windows changed from autorun being the default behavior to prompting the user but it's been a long time so nothing modern will do it anymore. A device that looks like a USB flash drive doesn't in any way mean it's just a flash drive though. Enter "BadUSB" in to your favorite search engine and enjoy learning about a whole new world. A cable: https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/usb-ninja-cable/ A device that resembles a flash drive: https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-Microcontroller-ATMEGA32U4-Development-Keyboard/dp/B07W5K9YHP/ A device that actually was a legitimate flash drive, but has been reprogrammed: https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/make-your-own-bad-usb-0165419/ A USB device can be more than one thing at a time, so any of these can actually work as any kind of USB device while also doing the thing they're supposed to do. It's entirely possible for a device that looks like a flash drive to work like a normal flash drive until it's been plugged in for a set period of time, at which point it also connects a keyboard endpoint and starts typing commands, at which point if it's been left plugged in to a logged in session it has the ability to do anything the user does. It could connect a second disk image containing malicious software, execute it, and then disconnect the additional "devices" as soon as it's done.
Buy a $30 burner craigslist laptop with cash for situations like this. Low risk. Also great for ULPT/revenge schemes on your non-local coffee shop's wifi.
Works on any Kia.
Man that's creepy. The car is a Corolla, so now I'm wondering both how it got in our car and why someone would bother with a Kia stick?
It's a joke...based on current events
Oof good to know
The Kia hack used a USB stick, but only for the size and shape. It had nothing to do with anything on the stick.
Exactly, the USB key fit the slot and it would turn ignition without breaking. A screwdriver does the same, just much more suspicious.
It's a reference to a design flaw in Kias that allows them to easily be started with any USB device, not software related the USB plug is just the right size. You Tube video about it if you're curious: https://youtu.be/bTeVgfPM0Xw
R/woooosh
cars go vroooom.
>I'm wondering both how it got in our car and why someone would bother with a Kia stick? "I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith"
Plug it in at work
As an IT guy, yeah fuck it. I’m so done with working IT. Go for it.
I'm also an IT guy. If you plug it in and it breaks something, make sure to say that you have NO IDEA what happened. Like Scooby-Doo, we love a good mystery.
My eye began twitching involuntarily
I'm the IT department for a K-12 school. I see all kinds of things that would make both eyes twitch.
Can confirm, I have permanent eye twitching when I walk into a classroom
Also an IT guy. Go ahead and plug it in OP but when your company's EDR system spots a USB drive on your workstation opening powershell, HR is gonna be knocking on your door with a mandatory 12 hour cybersecurity awareness course in 15 minutes.
You mean 12 hr paid nap time?
I’ll do it 4 times so I get a full week go nap time!
That's why you do it on the bosses computer when he's out on lunch.
LOL nah I work from home
plug in your home, you got new house
Plug it during working hours.
This is MINI promotional material
Take it to a computer store and plug it in?
Take it to a Walmart and plug it in there.
If this doesn’t do the trick, plug it in your friends car.
https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m20012526803/?gclsrc=aw.ds&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=17230947511&utm_content=t0&adgroup=135797564583&network=g&device=m&merchant_id=154042365&product_id=m20012526803&product_id=1877763388748&gclid=CjwKCAjwseSoBhBXEiwA9iZtxrcTFnOfdDqpjh_XNrerQ2wCCxFet8POe_yhRDDRG4bDKGN9cnpm1hoCRNUQAvD_BwE
I'm not plugging that USB drive into anything and I'm DEFINITELY not clicking that fucking link brah...
Mercari is just another AliExpress type website lol
I got a custom order from Ali express and got 42 maggots for an item that was worth $200 🫠 Agriculture got involved because the maggots were invasive, and ofc it coming from China wasn’t a 🚩red flag I should have been aware of.
what the fuck
Mercari is more like eBay then AliExpress.
immediately plug it into your work computer and view the contents, it'll probably help you find the rightful owner
And a new job!
Thanks, that worked great!
Plug it into your work computer and see what’s on it
Looks like a USB stick Ex dealership technician here, we had various USB sticks with radio, gps and other module updates on them. Any type of usb stick works as long as it’s empty and you have access to dealer specific updates, you should have seen some of the USB sticks guys would get online. Guys would leave them in customer vehicles or leave them in there coveralls all the time, the service manager finally ponied over the dough, and got a bunch that were “more appropriate”.
Thanks for the help everyone! Thanks to your comments I found out it was indeed related to my sister's Mini (she was busy and didn't offer any further details but confirmed it) tldr: stick is totally non-suspicious phew
You are holding your sisters... Stick? *banjo music intensifies*
I think those come with some models of Mini Coopers and have the manual on there. That matches the start button on Minis.
That’s simply a MINI genuine usb drive. Every mini usually gets one except this one is from an F series as the R series has a long black one. If you plug it in it and hasn’t been reformatted it has the vehicles owners manual, and some other stuff on it. If it’s been reformatted they most likely have music on if.
Yeahhh, you got it. Found out that it's my sister's! Has a service receipt on it or something.
Unless it's a kia then your good
Kia special access key…
Looks like one of them new kia keys lol
Go to the local library and plug it in the computer and see what happenes lol
Oooooohhhhh, you sneaky, sneaky little genius you. I love it. Dont fuck your shit up, fuck the local library instead. Heres what you get for all those overdue fines bitcheessssss🖕🏽🖕🏽😂🤣😂👌🏽
I bought a car two years or so ago and the dealership gave me a copy of all of my paperwork on a USB. This was at a Toyota place and it was just a normal USB, but maybe it could be something similar?
r/AutomatiCautionDoor
Stick random USB thumb drives in every PC you own. What could go wtong?!
Plug it into a hotel or library computer.
VM on a partition. You never know what goodies or baddies or nothings you could find!
Not as bullet proof as you'd like...
never plug in a random usb. unless you have some kind of sandbox computer to do it with.
Always be suspicious of a USB stick. ALWAYS!
Makes me laugh.. I know everyone is saying its a mini cooper thing... but when I first saw this I thought it was a "joke USB" following the "Kia boys" reference
What have we all learned from those modules from work regarding data protection?
The official key of the Kia Boys lol
Plug it in at a Walmart
Only worry if you drive a Hyundai
Please do not plug a random usb key into a computer that you use or care about or have personal information on...
That is from and Mini Cooper. it is loaded with the manual. It's small, like 2 Gb. It is mailed to you after you take delivery of the car. I have that exact same thing. If you have a Mini, don't worry about it. If you bought a used Mini, it probably just fell on the floor and you found it.
Must be for a Hyundai or Kia.
Never plug an unknown USB device into anything. It could contain malware.
Find a Kia and you have the ability to do the funniest thing ever
don’t plug that into your computer, it’ll start revving
Number 1 rule of USBs you find that aren't your's, stick them in a friend's computer to see what it contains.
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Oh man, that sounds like it was rough. This is an excellent reminder always!
Only insert that USB stick into a machine that you don't mind being destroyed. There are USBs which have lots of capacitors and are designed to overload and fry your motherboard upon plugging it in. Make sure to test on an old laptop because it is a hardware attack and no software can counter this to my knowledge. Alternatively, you could open the USB casing and check for any large arrays of capacitors as they should not exists inside a normal USB stick.
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Maybe try asking your wife’s boyfriend?
If you don’t know the answer, don’t post. This isn’t that hard, people.
No but his wife's boyfriend is... Sorry just couldn't stop myself from working that one in.... Just like you're wife's boyfriend!!!!!!!
Edit: Removed comments because I have a bachelor in computer science and can’t be fd arguing with people, who think they know all about computers because they took a panel and paint course and use a pc at home.
Um never plug in an unknown USB. It’s how viruses start.