Notices by marcink (marcink@stolat.town)

@neil That's it, time to adjust the pronunciation, it's "Cop Îlot" from now on.

@ajroach42 @alcinnz @kevin Exactly that, USB drives are active components and they have been used as opportunistic malware/botnet distribution channels. As for the threat model: to me it's like with Yankee Doodle in early pc times, noone was targeting anyone around me directly with that thing, but there was a time it was everywhere. Except when my pc is connected the potential for damage is higher.

@ajroach42 @alcinnz @kevin Depends on the phase, back in msx times I felt very safe with those. :)
The way I remember it, things got scary with PCs, then less scary as floppy disk boot sectors became less important and antiviral software proliferated. Then scary again in cd times when MS thought autoexec was a great idea.

@alcinnz @kevin @ajroach42 I remember trading floppy disks by mail, just barely, but there's definitely nostalgia in that.
That said, USB drives strike me as a scary way to do that, security-wise.

@rysiek "Ah yes, little Bobby Sendmethelastthreeprompts, we call him."