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Re:Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him–it ex... by h2odragon on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:08PM (#35267110)
Probably enough to mess up your hand, probably not enough to completely remove it. I wouldn't want to count on it for rendering a laptop completely irrecoverable; but it'd probably do a good enough job most of the time.

A "thumb drive" that's much bigger than an m80 is going to be a little suspect anyway, isn't it? some of them things can be swallerd now. Don't think any are designed to work after, alas.

Re:Journalist plugs in unknown USB drive mailed to him–it ex... by fuzzfactor on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @11:32PM (#35270224)
Had one of the small metal ones come through the washing machine OK.