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dead drops. possible tie in to geocaching?


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I was caching out at Hampton Beach, NH last month and found a flash drive in a cache. So I left a trackable and took the flash drive. Thought it was a cool piece of swag. Naively, a few days later I put it in my computer. Yes, I know, not very smart. On the drive was a file called "Kiddie Porn". My heart bout jumped out of my chest and I immediately pulled the flash drive out of my computer and brought it to my local police department. I was informed that I had to go to Hampton, NH police department because that is where I found it. I was finally able to get there today to file the report. I have no idea what was actually "in" the file but the title scared the heck out of me enough to speak with detectives in Hampton. I was advised by the detective that if I ever find one again, leave it. So I am just putting out the warning to fellow cachers and letting you know of my experience. I am wiser today than I was yesterday...... Happy and Safe Caching to all!

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Wow... The idea of placing a foreign USB device into my laptop without knowing it's precise history makes me shudder.

 

Although the vast majority of cachers are trustworthy. The number of completely inappropriate if not outright illegal items that I've found in caches makes me (with some computer security in my background) think that this would be a really bad idea.

 

Ensuring that all cachers follow proper computer security is, well... not an achievable (although noble) goal.

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On the drive was a file called "Kiddie Porn". My heart bout jumped out of my chest and I immediately pulled the flash drive out of my computer and brought it to my local police department.

 

Now, I know that sometimes people other than geocachers will leave stuff in caches. And I know that among geocachers, there are all kinds of people. But still...

 

I doubt that anyone would leave a flash drive with kiddie porn on it in a cache. And I doubt that anyone who is into kiddie porn would actually have a file called "kiddie porn." And if anyone was trying to trick you into loading kiddie porn onto your computer, they almost certainly wouldn't do it by labeling the file "kiddie porn."

 

I may be wrong, and it's probably better safe than sorry, but I bet the file labeled "kiddie porn" was not actually kiddie porn. Probably just some sort of (not so funny) joke. "Ha, ha, Made you look!" would be my guess.

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