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		glandium on March 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: USB Killer The problem is that a stick that you bought is something unknown.

rwallace on March 11, 2015 [–]

In principle, nothing outside pure mathematics is certain. In practice, a USB stick you ordered from Amazon and just took out of its packaging is far less likely to carry a virus than one you just found lying around.

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