[Web4lib] Big Flash Drives (snooping)

[Marion Sumerianlibrarian]

when people loose something of value they usually
retrace their steps backward until they find it. 

hence, rather than read through a lost private journal
in order to find its owner, as a trained archivist i
know it'd be simpler and more respectful to give the
author/owner a reasonable amount of time to come and
get and it on their own.

this holds true for any medium of information storage,
including flash drives.

respectfully submitted, ms

--- "Kevil, L H." <KevilL at missouri.edu> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > --
> > Dan Lester, Data Wrangler  dan at RiverOfData.com
> 208-283-7711
> > 3577 East Pecan, Boise, Idaho  83716-7115  USA
> > www.riverofdata.com   The Road Goes On Forever....
> >
> >
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