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Anecdote: Some kid brought a pen drive into our school and it blue screened the PC only when he copied a certain image file to it. Anything else was fine.

the first usb thumb drive i ever got had a capacity of 64mb. it went through multiple wash cycles after accidentally leaving it in my pockets many times over the first couple of years of its life.

recently when i was doing some cable spring cleaning i found it hiding in a box with usb and ethernet cable. I plugged it in and surprisingly its still working and the data on it are intact.

Not to mention, when you manage to get a "BadUSB" -- in this case you might be doomed ... you might even don't recognize, that a strange force have taken control of your computer and internet connect.