re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White
Not an IT guy here, but it seems to me that if you want to figure out what’s on a thumb drive, because you think it might be Bad Shit, you have computers configured for just that. Airgapped, sandboxed, no wi-fi card, no ethernet ports, do it all inside a Faraday Cage. You’d plug it into them and watch what happens. You don’t say, “Gee, what happens to my computer if I plug this in?”
If I find a thumb drive, it’s a quiet crunch underfoot, then the trash.