For the record, I’ve never sais that USB drives weren’t secuirty risks at all, just that with a little planning and smarts, you could minimize the risk to near zero. The latest episode of Hak.5 shows you how to make a jump drive that, when plugged in, can steal your Windows password in less than a few seconds. (It’s about 1/2 way through the episode.) However, that computer must be running in administrator mode, which, none of your public computers are doing, right?
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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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