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Why would any computer automatically run programs on USB sticks? It just seems like a really obvious security hole for negligible benefit.
by sketerpot 16y ago
Why would any computer automatically run programs on USB sticks? It just seems like a really obvious security hole for negligible benefit.
- mambodog 16y agoBecause... Windows? Plenty of thumbdrive and portable harddrive manufactures make use of this 'feature' to show a splash menu/crapware launcher on insertion of the drive, so I guess they like the idea.