Comment on Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  E-waste, I say no to these same as I say know to straws, or plastic forks for takeout.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A business card with a link to the content would be a lot less wasteful.

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    • the_ocs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep, and everyone understands a QR code these days

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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. A

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    • Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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      • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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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    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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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      • T156@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also in real life, although more with “lost” USB sticks, than handing them out as part of a resume (although the effect would be the same).

        If people encounter an unlabelled USB stick, they’ll often try and plug it into to discern whose it was. So if you put some malware on it, you can infect a network that you might not normally be aware of.

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 potential customers losing data.

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