Maybe The Students Are . . .
Maybe those university types are smarter than we think.
After all, isn't it a truism that modern anti-virus and anti-malware software automatically scans devices as they are connected, and automatically scans each software package as it is run? And isn't it true that university IT departments are staffed with the most knowledgeable and capable personnel, who maintain the uni's firewalls, internal protection systems, etc?
Why, then, would plugging in a flashdrive an issue?
Or . . . perhaps . . .we've all been misled by A-V and O/S claims of protection?