Written by Mike

This is why you don’t accept free USB sticks

USB sticks can have more than bad stuff on the flash portion of the drive, the firmware can be tweaked to emulate a keyboard as a Hardware Input Device (HID).

Wonderhowto.com has a walkthrough showing how easy it is.

Hackaday has a great explanation of why plugging random USB devices into your computer can lead to bad things happening.

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