I spent time having video calls with LEOs, intelligence agents and military folks over the course of the past 6-9 months. I saw how broken and disjointed and tribal power has become within the world of American authority.
I now know things about how the US government and military work that I feel the public should know.
I could write a book or make a YouTube video. But both of those are to inflexible and risky. I want to spill the beans in a much more permanent and effective way. I would like to help the public understand what is really going on behind the scenes, as best as I have seen.
SD card. Thumb drives are too easy to have malware. Nobody should plug in an unfamiliar thumb drive.
There’s zero functional difference between an SD card and a USB stick as far as malware. Don’t plug in any unfamiliar data storage device.
Generally news orgs and the like who have a real reason to receive a thumbdrive with important docs from random people will have a method of mitigating the risk. For example, a former client who was a tax preparer had a dedicated laptop which was firewalled off from the network and could only access a document web portal to upload files from the flash drive as their mitigation strategy
Turn it into a waveform and sing it to a pigeon?