top | item 1370997 (no title) sketerpot | 16 years ago Why would any computer automatically run programs on USB sticks? It just seems like a really obvious security hole for negligible benefit. discuss order hn newest mambodog|16 years ago Because... Windows? Plenty of thumbdrive and portable harddrive manufactures make use of this 'feature' to show a splash menu/crapware launcher on insertion of the drive, so I guess they like the idea.
mambodog|16 years ago Because... Windows? Plenty of thumbdrive and portable harddrive manufactures make use of this 'feature' to show a splash menu/crapware launcher on insertion of the drive, so I guess they like the idea.
mambodog|16 years ago