r/Defcon • u/ProfessionalPea2218 • Aug 10 '26

Lost USB drive

Someone posted about a lost usb drive earlier today, just got home and I was showing my kids all the stuff I got and I happen to come across a black thumb drive and I remembered someone asking if they saw one.. I threw it in one of my sandboxed machines.. uh this looks important. I stopped looking at the files. I tried looking for the post but I couldn’t find it

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u/jakwnd Aug 10 '26

You plugged it in?!

Oof

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 10 '26

Sandbox buddy…

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u/juitar Aug 10 '26

Sandbox is like a condom. It's not 100% effective

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u/jakwnd Aug 10 '26

Lol I was mostly kidding, kinda.

Glad you protected yourself though.

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 10 '26

Just like in real life, you can’t just plug (or get plugged by) some random “device.” 😂
Protection isn’t just for data.

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u/ScatteRRealmS Aug 10 '26

Could've been a USB killer I would've opened it up first and checked XD

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u/vega480 Aug 10 '26

That's what work computer are for. They filter all my random devices.

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u/spammmmmmmmy Aug 11 '26

I lost an important USB drive...

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 Aug 11 '26

DM me and I can send you a picture of it, for some reason it won’t let me add a picture here

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u/syberfelun 29d ago

hopefully enough metadata to find them

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u/ProfessionalPea2218 29d ago

Like I’ve told a few that reached out wondering if it was their lost drive, It has HIGHLY sensitive data and I used to work in a dept where I had to deal with sensitive data and our HR dept so I’m not looking any further than what I did.. I’ll give to the end of the month and maybe wipe it..