I'd much sooner plug it into something like a RaspberryPi 2 (the one without a Wi-Fi chip). And maybe have it running some *BSD or some such. Something that isn't normally targeted by malware.
Maybe you don't trust the police to keep it safe. Maybe you don't trust the police to trust you and take this seriously. Maybe you'd rather have such mishaps be known than kept silent, hoping for things to get better. Then again I don't know squat about what kind of editorial line or journalistic quality the Sunday Mirror entertains.
A few years ago I found a phone in the street. It didn't have any return-to or ICE message on the homescreen so I decided to drop it into the local police station in case someone was searching for it.
What a mistake that was. Just to hand it in they wanted my name, address, contact details, statement of where and when I found it, what I had done with it since finding it... after standing-around for 10 minutes waiting for the duty officer to saunter down. What an ordeal.
Earlier this year I found another phone in a park and took it to the EE store, as it was branded as one of their phones. "Thanks mate! We'll get it back to its owner. Here, have a coffee and a bun on us for being an honest guy!"
I know which option I'd choose again in future. I don't blame the gentleman in the story for going to a paper rather than the police, especially having found something the mere possession of which could get him arrested.
To prevent threats from insiders. For example, imagine one of her personal staff is blackmailed into placing a bomb in the Queen's handbag, or similar. Also, if she is flying commercially (the Royals use British Airways first class, I believe) then there is a legal requirement (Perhaps from the EU, or the CAA, and maybe also mandated by the destination's aviation authorities?) to search all passengers and X-ray their carry-on baggage, so she would not be able to exempted - remember flightcrew and even pilots have to go through screening!
1 Sunday Mirror pays for leads, might be hungry insider
2 Windows keeps a log of every USB drive ever plugged in, tracing who used that drive will be trivial IF theres ever an investigation (obviously wont be if CISO suddenly realizes his jacked pockets are empty)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 68.3 ms ] threadPersonally, I would avoid plugging in random dongles- unless my curiosity got the better of me.
This unemployed London man clearly knows his shit- he plugged the stick into a random library computer!
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/usb-k...
Clearly the most obvious thing to do.
What a mistake that was. Just to hand it in they wanted my name, address, contact details, statement of where and when I found it, what I had done with it since finding it... after standing-around for 10 minutes waiting for the duty officer to saunter down. What an ordeal.
Earlier this year I found another phone in a park and took it to the EE store, as it was branded as one of their phones. "Thanks mate! We'll get it back to its owner. Here, have a coffee and a bun on us for being an honest guy!"
I know which option I'd choose again in future. I don't blame the gentleman in the story for going to a paper rather than the police, especially having found something the mere possession of which could get him arrested.
https://www.circl.lu/projects/CIRCLean/
the same government that has had so many data breaches that it has its own wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_government_data_los...
Next on the agenda: How not to lose a usb stick with all that data on it.
Stay vigilant Heahtrow! :)
So I guess even the Queen has to go through the security procedures.
2 Windows keeps a log of every USB drive ever plugged in, tracing who used that drive will be trivial IF theres ever an investigation (obviously wont be if CISO suddenly realizes his jacked pockets are empty)