• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    What, you expect the flash drives they hand out for free at trade shows to be decent quality?

    They are intended to be used to distribute advertising materials, not be rewritten multiple times.

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      9 months ago

      I remember some kid at a job fair in college handing out his resume on flash drives. I remember one of the booths saying “yeah, that’s not getting read.”

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        9 months ago

        It’d be an awful security risk if they did. You can’t trust that the USB stick contains the resume to begin with.

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          9 months ago

          A smart kid would have written a Stuxnet type malware that finds its way to any payroll system and adds him silently to it.

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            9 months ago

            A smarter kid would then have it auto email their cyber dept with their resume and point out the vulnerability, and have their malware autoremove himself from the system before getting paid so he doesn’t go to jail for it. And even then, it’s illegal and a risky move just to try to get a job.

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          It’d be an awful security risk if they did.

          Wasn’t that an actual plot device used over and over in Mr Robot?

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      9 months ago

      Since their brand is on it, yeah. I would expect that if the company wants my business, they wouldn’t put their name on shit quality products. Especially if it can lead to their would-be customers losing data. It kind of baffles me that they think this is a good way to impress me.