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		sketerpot on May 22, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM Distributes Malware-Infected USB Sticks At Sec... Why would any computer automatically run programs on USB sticks? It just seems like a really obvious security hole for negligible benefit.

mambodog on May 23, 2010 [–]

Because... 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.

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