Reply to post: Re: Ok People

Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot

Nigel 11

Re: Ok People

Just possibly, because your large/important file/partition was encrypted.

OTOH if a random hostile has seen that there is encrypted data on the drive it gives them a stronger incentive to try to sneak spyware in to your computer via the returned drive. So retrieve your encrypted file/partition using a sacrificial computer. If you are truly paranoid then validity-test the retrieved data on a second sacrificial computer that is not networked.

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