If you found a mystery USB stick in the street

[dangermows]

Aye I can picture it now................."excuse me officer, I've just found this USB full of child abuse images in the street"........

They can hopefully find out when and where they were taken. You'd not get done for it dafty. What would you do like? Bin it, say nowt and potentially leave some sick fucker to crack on abusing kids?

You leave well alone just in case.

 

[look out piano]

They can hopefully find out when and where they were taken. You'd not get done for it dafty. What would you do like? Bin it, say nowt and potentially leave some sick fucker to crack on abusing kids?

I wouldn't pick it up in the first place.

 

[dangermows]

I wouldn't pick it up in the first place.

What if you found it in your house like others have said? Be a bit weird spending your life not looking at stuff just in case it contained child abuse images mind.

 

[look out piano]

What if you found it in your house like others have said? Be a bit weird spending your life not looking at stuff just in case it contained child abuse images mind.

There's only me and the bairn in my house, there was nothing here when we moved in.

 

[dangermows]

There's only me and the bairn in my house, there was nothing here when we moved in.

It was hypothetical.

 

[look out piano]

It was hypothetical.

Aye, well I stand by my stance, do nowt, chuck the fucker in the bin.

 

[Goat Eyes]

Aye I can picture it now................."excuse me officer, I've just found this USB full of child abuse images in the street"........


You leave well alone just in case.

So if you found a stolen bike or bag of drugs you would just leave it there in case you got nicked for it?

The police aren’t really daft.

 

[dangermows]

So if you found a stolen bike or bag of drugs you would just leave it there in case you got nicked for it?

The police aren’t really daft.

She's not reet man Report nowt in fear of getting nicked for it

 

[look out piano]

She's not reet man Report nowt in fear of getting nicked for it

Not fear of getting nicked, I just couldn't be arsed with the hassle.

 

[dangermows]

Not fear of getting nicked, I just couldn't be arsed with the hassle.

You said a few posts back you'd get nicked. A bit of hassle (handing it in) would be worth it if it meant you got a child abuser locked up IMO. Each to their own though.

 

[Dave Herbal]

What if it contained a map to buried treasure ? Like a buried suitcase containing a million pounds in non sequential used notes?

 

[Frijj]

What if it contained a map to buried treasure ? Like a buried suitcase containing a million pounds in non sequential used notes?

On an unencrypted USB stick in Consett?

 

[KittenMittens]

If anyone stuck a random USB they'd found in the street into one of our work laptops I'd make them pay £3k for a replacement if it borked it. f***ing idiots.

Wish people would learn the very basics of this stuff.

 

[RossTheNinja]

What if it contained a secret government list of famous paedophiles or summat?


I download loads of torrents (currently 240 active) and never use any virus protection. Then again it’s a Mac.

Always knew you were a wrang un.

Does anyone recall the NHS / Wannacry shambles a few months back ? Unpatched network and people poking about where they shouldn't

Never plug in an unknown stick, never open an unknown email, never click on a link sent to you by an idiot (that's almost everyone I work with) - its also a disciplinary offence to charge your phone off a hub, docking station or Laptop where I work, we're a bit over the top with everything mind

Was that the one where someone emailed everyone in the nhs, which nearly killed the network, then several geniuses replied to all to say "stop replying to all"?

 

[Dave Herbal]

If anyone stuck a random USB they'd found in the street into one of our work laptops I'd make them pay £3k for a replacement if it borked it. f***ing idiots.

Wish people would learn the very basics of this stuff.

But are you speaking from an IT savvy point of view? You have to remember that most people aren’t. Certainly, the people I work with struggle to do anything more than open their emails. I’m probably the most switched on about computers (which isn’t saying much) so you have a whole raft of forklift drivers and workshop grunts who have access to work PCs and not the slightest clue about this kind of thing. We get training programs where you have to do stuff like drag the viruses (represented by insects) onto the appliances (PC, router, fridge, kettle etc) to see if they are susceptible to attack. That’s what you’re dealing with on the shop floor.

On an unencrypted USB stick in Consett?

Full of wrang uns up there

 

[Unbalanced Views]

Always knew you were a wrang un.


Was that the one where someone emailed everyone in the nhs, which nearly killed the network, then several geniuses replied to all to say "stop replying to all"?

lol no, that happens a lot though, its best when the email servers aren't set up right and out of office replies are replied to by out of office replies till the servers falls over

The NHS bollox was due to their IT people not bothering to patch old XP OS so any virus could run havoc - coupled by lunatic access to the internet so viruses got in unhindered

 

[Aituk7]

I know I correct you often on politics but in this case it's not content you are worried about there are other attack vectors


Eh your vm uses the host pc drivers to access the drive

When you say correct.... you mean... whinge/cry/try

 

[RossTheNinja]

lol no, that happens a lot though, its best when the email servers aren't set up right and out of office replies are replied to by out of office replies till the servers falls over

The NHS bollox was due to their IT people not bothering to patch old XP OS so any virus could run havoc - coupled by lunatic access to the internet so viruses got in unhindered

Actually went to remote in to a company for a training session and we couldn't figure out why our software wasn't working. Until they mentioned they were running xp. I think this was two years ago

 

[Unbalanced Views]

Actually went to remote in to a company for a training session and we couldn't figure out why our software wasn't working. Until they mentioned they were running xp. I think this was two years ago

Its scary to be sure - the number of XP still being ran, Servers with Win2003 systems on them etc etc, its like they want their systems cracked

 

[Notorious N O B]

I'd slam it straight in my lappy like, no bother