If You Find This In the Wall, Don't Touch Or Pull It!

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it, I'm serious, whether you call it Memory Stick Gig Stick Key Drive, Thumb Drive, Jump Drive, we are all talking about the same thing, a flash drive USB, well, maybe. It's not the drive, hey, who hasn't had at least one of these super convenient little buggers, they usually don't expect more than an ounce, they're easy to put in your pocket and take wherever you want and nowadays they can hold up to two terabytes . not to mention it's pretty hard to damage these things, who knows what secrets, a simple memory card and a hole, well you can't be sure until you check it, but you might want to think twice before doing it, in

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How dangerous is a flash drive sticking out of a path and present and why you should never pick one up off the street, but before you start remember to click that magic red button and subscribe to the bright side of life where you will find tons. of helpful videos like this one that answer almost any question you may have, so if you're ever walking down the street and notice a flash drive sticking out of the sidewalk or a

wall

, don't be confused, chances are you've come across With what is known as a deadlock despite its sinister name, this is a global art project that has borrowed some tricks from the world of spies and espionage, you see, decades ago, spies had their own ways of To exchange top secret materials, there was a stalemate where spies would meet in person, but this was often extremely dangerous, so they invented the Dead Drop.

No, this is not where Drop Dead was invented. This is when spies had important documents in secret places, like loose bricks in the wall, to be picked up later, inspired by this. Cool retro spy thing Berlin-based artist, a fun arthel, decided to create an anonymous offline network for peer-to-peer sharing in public space. A dead drop roms project encourages people to exchange sensitive information with others by hiding memory cards around the world now if you're eager to put on your black coat and dark sunglasses and go play spy. Simply take a memory card and embed it firmly in a fence, wall, or sidewalk.

If you want to go out and search for a hidden USB drive, you can find the location. Of all the flash drive projects in the dead drop database, once you find one you can do absolutely anything you see fit, delete the files on the drive, copy them or add your own information. Today, there are more than fifteen hundred dead spots around the world. In the world, you can encounter a deadlock on almost any continent you visit, except Antarctica, perhaps because there are not so many walls there and the data accumulated on all these flash drives reaches 10 terabytes, from Iceland to New Zealand, Dead spots attract those who want to engage in some secret activity and explore the world around them and while it's a little difficult to go unnoticed by plugging your laptop into the wall, you have a spectacle, people are still willing to accept the challenge, wait, where is crazy going to start? hurry up for fun adventures and new knowledge hmm, not so fast, you still haven't heard about the drawbacks of the drop dead project.

First of all, it is highly inadvisable to connect some random USB stick to your computer, you never know what viruses are lurking there. waiting patiently to destroy your next victim's hard drive and, although the thrill of risk is part of the game, don't overdo it if you're 100 percent sure you want to play, fortify your computer with the best antivirus program you can, second First place, I can't even imagine what information could be waiting for you on a flash drive, anyone can download videos, images or text files and this has already created several problems, for example, a German journalist found a dead spot that had information describing how make some kind of illegal drugs, as well as recipes for different deadly poisons, but the most dangerous thing he discovered were instructions on how to create a bomb.

This, of course, definitely raised questions from the police. It turned out that those who had put this dangerous information on the USB stick were simply playing a joke, but in any case no one knows what problems may be waiting on the next flash drive, think twice before you decide to get involved, while some USB sticks embedded in the walls can only be potentially dangerous, there are many flash drives lying on the floor. Street that presents a real danger to your personal information and money. Scammers today have several ways to use a simple memory card to ruin your life.

Lost memory cards. Children are always taught not to accept anything from strangers, but when they grow up they don't. I hesitated to pick up a supposedly lost memory card and take it home. In a 2016 study, it turned out that of 297 flash drives that had been dropped on a college campus, 98 percent were picked up and 45 percent were plugged in. And? How dangerous a small flash drive can be, you can't even imagine the disastrous consequences it could have. Criminals can access your personal information, passwords and other important data, and they can easily destroy your computer, even major organizations have suffered from this type of situation.

The USB attacks, one of the most shocking examples was with Stuxnet, this was a computer worm that managed to infect all the software in different industrial sites in Iran and it was all from a lost and found USB drive, even a uranium enrichment plant was affected by this attack to make matters worse, this virus sent fake response messages that made detecting it an impossible task. Another reason why you shouldn't insert anything you find on the street into your computer is a killer USB. A Hong Kong-based company has created a flash. unit that can literally annihilate a computer, it absorbs power from the USB line until it reaches 240 volts, this energy then returns to your computer's data lines, overwhelming them and sending your computer to an early grave and if you think that only the Super rich people can afford this dangerous toy, think again, anyone can get one of these for only 56 dollars.

Wow, don't these Rascals have better things to do? USB flash drives by mail. Have you ever received a package in the mail with a USB flash drive? Whatever you decide to do with it, don't connect it to your computer. Police in Australia are seeing more and more cases of cybercriminals using this new tactic: dropping unmarked memory cards into mailboxes. Of course, it's no surprise that these devices contain malware. which can seriously mess up your computer, these scammers evidently depend on human curiosity and in all honesty it is worth it, people cannot resist the temptation to check the contents of this mysterious gift, as a result, almost half of the memories USB received by mail receive connected after that, people start having problems with their laptops and computers, for example, fraudulent media start offering streaming services or computer viruses damage files and programs on a PC again.

This is not just a crime against individuals when the Auditor General of Western Australia conducted a security investigation. exercise involving USB flash drives 8 out of 15 government agencies failed the test this was simply the result of employees irresponsibly connecting USB drives found in the mail to their work computers. What's really scary is that these suspicious flash drives could easily gain access to agency networks and remember. These were government agencies, so if you find an unmarked USB drive in your mailbox, break it into little pieces as best you can and throw it in the trash so it can't claim any more victims, how about the flash drive scam eBay?

If you ever see an online ad for a terabyte memory card selling for a ridiculous amount of money, be careful, it's most likely a scam, so don't be fooled, this is a new trick that Chinese hackers use if you decide to use it. Take advantage of this amazing offer and you will get your new flash drive only to find out that it is fake. These hackers have somehow discovered a way to alter the settings of the controller chip, so that while a USB stick normally shows its true capacity, it is either 8 16 32 or more. gigabytes after these modifications, this number is much higher.

There is also another problem with this trick, as long as you don't exceed the actual capacity of your new flash drive it works fine but once you exceed the limit the memory card will start to slowly corrupt your data when you open folders everything will seem to be in order, but a little later you will discover that most of your data is gone and cannot be recovered if you are still in doubt about whether or not to accept a great eBay deal. look up the price of a real 1 terabyte USB flash drive, you won't find any for less than $650, so now you have been warned to hit the like button if you are always extra careful about your computer security and would never use it. some random USB on the street, go ahead and give us a like if you think the information in this video will help you avoid these types of errors in the future and if you have ever connected an unknown memory card to your computer or know someone Please tell us in the comments below.

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