[Web4lib] Big Flash Drives

[Kevil, L H.]

I really don't see a moral problem here. If I find your wallet on the
sidewalk, you bet I will open it up so I can get it back to you. Same
with flash-memory drives, notebooks, or (in the old days) floppies.

Hunter

L. Hunter Kevil
Collection Development Librarian 
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65201
573-884-8760
kevill at missouri.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Richard Wiggins
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 10:10 PM
To: Dan Lester
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Big Flash Drives

We had an interesting moral question:  what do you do when you find an
abandoned thumb drive in a computer lab or public space?

If you plug it in and inspect it, you might find things that you should
not see, or more importantly, the patron, doesn't want you to see.

The answer I proposed was to NOT plug it in, and leave a note where it
was lost telling the patron that they should go to the designated Lost
and Found area, and describe it in order to claim it.

How people in charge of public spaces handle lost media will only
increase in importance.

/rich

On 6/8/06, Dan Lester <dan at riverofdata.com> wrote:
> Well, if you want to look at big flash drives, check out 
> www.kanguru.com, that now has a 64GB flash drive.  Of course it costs 
> 2800 bucks, but....
>
> They are one of the many companies that has flash drives with 
> fingerprint secured encryption. So, guess we needn't worry about how 
> big the flash drives are.
>
> I know students who've lost 128MB flash drives, but they're cheap.
> Imagine losing one of the 64gb drives....
>
> dan
>
> --
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