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

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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    3 months ago

    They mean the USB bus. But killing the bus is a driver-level thing that the kernel controls, not the user. You can disable the port with CLI commands or a GUI depending on the OS, but killing the bus requires uninstall of the driver or manually shorting the caps directly on the mainboard, which is dumb.