If you had to access an unfamiliar flash drive (or other data storage), what safety precautions would you take? (lemm.ee)

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The safest option is obvious, don't try to access its contents, but if you absolutely had to, what steps would you take to minimize/contain any potential harm to your device/network?

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Boot a PC with no hard drives with a live CD so there is no storage to write to. connect the drive and see what there is.

[-] dotdi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Hard drives (SSDs, etc) are not the only durable storage that can be written to

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