Here’s something I’d honestly not considered. An interesting read on Engadget (I found it on Digg) about some people planting trojans on thumb drives and leaving them around. People plug them in, it runs, sucks data off the PC, et voila, free information for the hacker!
It’s not something I’d considered mainly because I’ve never actually ‘found’ a thumb drive laying about. I’ve had them given to me after they’ve been handed in to lost property (they really were lost) but I think in future I’ll be watching where I plug stuff in. It’s easy to get blasé about such things when you have all the antivrus and patches you think you could ever need. Even people like me who “should know better” get caught out now and then!