Non approved journalists need not write.
(gizmodo.com)
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https://gizmodo.com/usb-sticks-freedom-of-the-press-bomb-ecuador-1850254706
Here's another source from the article :
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/journalist-plugs-in-unknown-usb-drive-mailed-to-him-it-exploded-in-his-face/
The comment section there has multiple people reporting random USB drives on the ground they're happy they never bothered to pick up.
I find it hard to believe that one could fit enough explosives into a USB stick to kill someone.
This sounds like bullshit.
You only have to injure someone's hands these days enough to make them require speech to text software in order to write. The fact that it's happening to news channels means it's pretty documented. I don't doubt the validity.
Fair enough. I also don't know enough about the topic to speak definitively on it.
But I've heard a lot of bullshit out of the media and this one just set off my detector. Maybe I need to recalibrate.
The thing is, I get lost following clicks sometimes. This topic has a whole lot of articles on it. I didn't find bias in the sources. Ars for example used to be a better busier site, but they were pretty good for tech, and comments.
Anybody who plugs in a random memory stick deserves whatever happens to them. ESPECIALLY if they're mailed to you unlike the classic dump them in a parking lot like Mr Robot
For you and me, but for that job I understand thinking it's a whistle blower or something.