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Even knowing better now, it's still tempting. In most cases, throwing it in a isolated linux system should be okay.

Of course, unless it's one of those USB-Killer devices that pushes voltage back... Curiosity is fun and dangerous at the same time

Very interesting. I actually built a "thumb drive inspector" out of one of the ST Micro butterfly boards, basically its USB OTG port can act as a host and look at the contents of a file, and if it turns out to be a suicide drive or a drive waiting to exploit you can see that too (at the risk of losing your $19 board.

From a security perspective I would expect places with high security requirements would leave drives around on purpose to find people unable to resist the temptation.