<story><title>Yet Another &quot;People Plug in Strange USB Sticks&quot; Story</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_peo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sandman</author><text>So the point of this article is that it&apos;s not stupid to plug in random USB sticks you find on the street? That&apos;s what USB sticks are for? What if you found a big slice of your favorite type of cake on a park bench, would you eat it? You wouldn&apos;t? Why not, hell, &lt;i&gt;that&apos;s what cakes are for&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Picking up random USB sticks and sticking them into your computer is the equivalent of having sex with random people you meet on the street. The only thing you can hope for if you do that is that whatever you&apos;re having as protection is going to save you from catching something nasty. But by the time you find out if your protection actually protected you or not, it might already be too late.&lt;p&gt;I agree that it would be great if our systems could save us from anything and everything malware writers can come up with. But unfortunately, they can&apos;t, so our first line of defense should just be plain old common sense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yet Another &quot;People Plug in Strange USB Sticks&quot; Story</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_peo.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jberryman</author><text>Schneier seems to be mostly imagining an attack in which a USB disk is loaded with some malware, but the USB stick could be just about anything:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hackaday.com/2010/10/29/tiny-usb-business-card/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://hackaday.com/2010/10/29/tiny-usb-business-card/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>