One day, an archeologist will find that one thumb drive I lost in 2016 and could never find again
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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At least you are not the guy who threw away his bitcoin wallet, are you?
James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, mistakenly threw away a hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin (worth over £500 million/$900M+ as of 2025) in 2013
Find a USB stick in the parking lot? Don't plug it into your PC and probably destroy it with fire.
Find a USB stick while digging in the park? Plug that baby in, jam to some Back to Black, and watch some vintage porn.
Some VMs are created only to be burned.
Some used PCs with no disks are bought only to be booted into a live Linux distro and then some time later resold in the same condition.
I chuckled. You could also plug it into a system win only a Linux live dvd, no storage, no speakers.
Safer from malware, but not safe from usb “pranks.” I doubt anyone is leaving a port killer out, but getting your port gunked up, or partly disassembled via locks is a thing.
Disposability is worth considering as well
So are hubs and extensions.
USB killer
USB Kill Shield
A female to A male adapter with a replaceable fuse? Sounds like a hundred-dollar idea!
There's always a bigge USB killer
But what if I have a USB Kill Shield Kill Shied Kill Shield
🤔
Nah use a vm on a computer which you dont care about
May i suggest a library pc?
Some day, a lucky archeologist will unearth the one true archive from an innocent-looking tarball.
(X) Doubt.
They won't know what to do with a tarball anymore than I do
I think that’s just finding a usb stick from around a decade ago
You could get lucky and find gold AKA bitcoin.
At what point does it stop being archaeology and starts becoming computer science?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_archaeology
The computational archaeologists run archaeo.social for Mastodon/Matrix. :) They are a rad group.
When some rich, Walt Disney-type buys an island and fills it with supercomputers in order to clone a park full of Amys Winehouse?
SHIT! Somebody finally found it! Man, I hope I didn't have anything on there with my personal info!
Is the image hosted on archaeological server as well? -Nunavut Hosting-
Mmmm forbidden chocolate bar.