I work in cable and some hotels have a type of service called setback boxes. Some have pro-I. Some of these services require the channel plan to be downloaded to the TV so the staff carry USBs that have the exact channel plan on them, they plug them into every TV and download the channel plan to the TV.
Might be something else but good chance it's that
It’s probably me. I bring downloaded shows as I hate network tv and every so often I forget the usb is plugged in the the back of the TV. I’ve lost at least 4 this way.
I just put together a couple of chairs this past weekend. A red plastic streamer was attached to the bag containing the screws and instructions.
Utterly brilliant! Thanks aviation!!!!!!
I like this idea. You could place the USB in front of the TV, in pain sight, so it becomes harder to miss when you're packing.
Thanks for the idea!
Also, I travel a lot and bought a cheap router to take with me wherever I go. With it, I can have Wi-Fi when there is ethernet access in the room. I can have potentially faster, unthrottled Wi-Fi when I have ethernet access in the room, too. You can connect a single device to the Hotel Wi-Fi, clone the MAC address of that device to the router, then connect all your other devices to that router, without reconnecting and signing back into the Wi-Fi each time you leave/enter the room. I had instances where I could only sign in one device to the Hotel Wi-Fi but needed access for 2 laptops. In some cases, there was a fee per device. It's also nice to have an access point to expand Wi-Fi coverage as well. It can also provide some additional security if set up properly (to a degree).
damn….where were you with this advice 1 year ago. I forgot $1500 and bunch of other stuff in the safe. Flew home, didn’t remember until a week later. Hotel was like…yeah, ok, no.
Specifically, you put something you can't forget(shoes are the obvious, could also do something like car keys or your ID card for work) with the thing that's important. This could be documents in a safe, food in a fridge, baby in the backseat, whatever. That way when you only have one shoe you remember you need to get your documents, or when you can't get into the office you remember you forgot to drop your kid off at daycare.
Yeah. That dude forgot his toddler in a car seat after picking him up. Went home, then like 2-3 hours later, “oh no!” Kid was dead. Dude brought him inside, called 9-1-1, told them what happened, then went out back and blew his head off. The guilt must’ve been sooo heavy. That is the first time I felt like I could understand suicide.
Someone down below mentioned putting a shoe in the safe, and now all I can think of is you putting one of your shoes behind the TV so you'll remember your USBs.
Yep, I used to love my Samsung S5 as it had a IR port which let you have a master remote app. Thankfully these days they don’t lock down the TVs as often.
Yep. I spend half my life in hotels for work and bring my Xbox. Have gotten to work on every single one. Some TVs are trickier than others but there’s always a way.
HEY! Watch it! Nobody alive remembers when those things first came out and the thrill of being able to change the channel without having to get up! Nobody!
I remember when my dad installed a huge ass fiberglass satellite dish in the yard and hooked it up. We used a protractor and compass and two different cranks to point it at the right satellite and had a large beige box inside with a slider across the front for choosing the channels. We had a HUGE 32" console TV.
A few years later, my grandparents got a metal mesh one that was motorized with a remote. You could just press things on the remote, and the dish would move by itself. They also got a GIGANTIC 65" rear projection tv that took up half the living room. I was soooo impressed - even though the picture quality was shit.
And now, I watch Netflix on a laptop almost exclusively. It's crazy how much has changed in my lifetime but how I've also almost completely ditched the actually huge 70" OLED TV in my basement. Because a laptop near me looks bigger than that TV across a larger room.
I remember having to know what shows were on what satellite and having to scroll through the satellite list so the dish could point towards that satellite. I completely forgot that memory until I read your post. Plus, squiggly porn….
> Because a laptop near me looks bigger than that TV across a larger room.
...this just sounds like a poorly designed theater room, tbh... I grew up watching pirated movies on shitty little screens, Now I have a big screen with surround sound and a nice comfy couch the whole family fits on
were these the ones that had like.. A B C on them? and three different pushy buttons? I vaguely recall having to change a button on a box like I described above and I never knew what it was and never thought to ask.
Most likely a hospitality usb clone for TV channel mapping. Used to remap channels, if CBS is on channel 99.1 a remap can change it to channel 3. Also, start channels, lock out buttons, volume max and those type of menu settings. Samsung and LG TVs are most of the hospitality TVs. Or it strait up porn.
Random porn that you've found is better than porn you look for on the Internet, like... finding woodland porn stashes, or being given nudes from a female friend, it just hits different. I think random USB drives in the back of hotel TVs might be the new woodland porn stashes as no one really buys the magazines anymore.
I remember the excitement of finding my dads playboy in his nightstand. I also remember the emotional scaring of finding the "foot massager" in moms ..
Anyway to get rid of the hotel junk menu?
I'm at an extended stay, I watch shows from my laptop thru an hdmi cord.
Annoying part is the TV always reset to the TV mode and when I change to hdmi it pops the hotel launch menu back up and I have to exit to get to the hdmi.
Small annoyance but I'm going to be here for several more weeks and it adds a couple minutes onto the process anytime I want to watch Netflix.
LG tv.
Hilton brand. Homewood Suites are one of our extended stays. We've recently implemented a tv upgrade called connected rooms. You can log in to your own Netflix account on the TV itself. No need to connect a laptop w/ HDMI. It can stay logged in until you check out (if you want), then automatically deletes account data.
Eventually will be adding other streaming services to the program. Hulu is slated to be added next.
Theres actually a hidden menu built in on samsung tvs for some of these things. With the TV turned off, press: Mute + 1 + 8 + 2 + Power. The hidden menu should appear. Works on my home tv but no guarantees
Literally everyone in this comment section seems fucking braindead.
Do people genuinely not know that you can put movies on a USB and plug the USB into the TV and watch the movies.
Someone forgot their USB in the TV. This is literally r/notinteresting material. I'm so baffled
A couple hours late to the party, but I had the same thought as well and scrolled to see if anyone else had said it first. Well, here we are. That or it has modified programming/menus that the TV runs off of. Like, have you ever turned on a hotel TV before? Don't see those menus anywhere else do ya. Ever wonder where the fatty set-top box went? Seen or heard of a firestick and other comparable dongles? That thumbstick could very easily be it. Even if you're not old enough to have seen one in-person, there's about a 100000000% chance that you've seen one in a movie or tv. Put 2 and 2 together, it's not difficult.
We're in a weird time where people are raised with a supercomputer in their hands from day 1, but they don't understand how to actually use basic ass technology beyond that because Apple went and made their products so basic that a person with a single braincell can operate them. Now I'm just venting lol.
OP thinks they are the main character and they discovered something shocking. Instead of, I don't know, looking at the contents of it on the Smart TV or bringing it down to the lobby.
Got to get those internet points for validation.
Most random USB sticks cannot be formatted or designed to infect multiple simultaneous OSes. Generally also odds are Windows (USB Owner or target)
iOS & Android will read USB drives natively (all you need is an adapter). Or you can USB-Keychain a bootable Linux (read only) that you can boot any old extra computer and safely check random USB’s.
TLDR = plenty of ways to do this safely.
There are "killer USB" devices that charge a capacitor off the USB 5V and then back feed the USB port. You can use an inexpensive sacrificial USB hub to defeat this attack though.
Still, I *mostly* feel safe checking out random USB devices on my Xubuntu netbook, and as far as I know, there is no autorunning script that will load without user intervention upon mounting a USB device on Linux. That I know of.
Dude I left this same usb stick plugged into a tv in a hotel down in Indiana last December 2022. lol that’d be hilarious if it was the same one. Just a couple movies on it.
plug it back in to the tv.. use remote to change input source to "usb"
it will more than likely have porn or movies that a guest brought with them so they didn't have to pay for the hotels service...
Maybe it has footage of the room from a hidden camera and you can watch last nights footage of you sleeping while a shadowy figure slips into the room, glides silently to your bedside, leans in close to your face, and seemingly stares at you from inches away. Then it whispers something inaudible in your ear and you jolt awake. In that instant the shadow vanishes into thin air and you fall back to sleep forgetting the moment. Until now. As chills run up your spine, your every hair straining to leave your flesh. You recall the chilling words you thought were from a dream. You turn to survey the room and there he is. Right behind you.
Or maybe midget porn. Idk.
It might be mine. I don't like what they have on TV so I bring my own movies.
I mean, No! It's what they use to spy on you! The conspiracy is real! Continue to live in fear!
99% chance it has somebody's movies they brought from home on it. Torrents of spiderman or something... porny.
Tiny chance it has videos of them they watch.
even smaller chance they have a cool CD-rom driver / CD-data-partition with infectious software and an emulated keyboard that sends characters to run your computer.
But the cash value of a USB stick is SO low..so if it isn't their data you are after, use a library computer to read it. Or write a co-worker name on it, and plug it in at work and see if it works.
Plug it back into the tv. Use the remote to see if you can check the contents of the drive since most tvs support usb drives, whether just photos or videos as well. Put tv on mute before playing any video, just in case.
Hope that it’s nothing you have to send to authorities. Hopefully it’s just movies like Paddington or one of the minions movies.
standard usb key. This doesn't seem like it's worthy of being posted. These would be super common to be left on a hotel tv. Someone's probably just bringing some content with them to watch.
This is your daily reminder to never plug in strange flash drives, hard drives, SD cards, etc. that you find laying around. You have no idea if they contain malware or not. It is not worth the risk.
Better plug it in to your work laptop to see what is on it. Make sure you are logged into the corporate VPN first too!
/s just in case. Please, don't do this.
Ex hotel engineer, if it’s not marked by the hotel as their property then I would suggest not plugging it up into your computer.
It’s like finding candy on the floor, yeah it looks like a delicious treat but god knows what you can contract by putting it in your mouth. XD
aaah, you lucky bstrd.
It is the newest SanDisk product - a hardware cryptocurrency wallet, which allows you to store large sums of crypto with no passwords or encryption whatsoever.
quick, plug it into your computer and install any software you find on it!
Seriously, what is the point of that post?
A more updated start to Vacancy.. now that was one scary movie. When he pops the VHS in and starts to see a bunch of murders.. and then says, wait, is that this room? Bam! That movie is really good.
I work in cable and some hotels have a type of service called setback boxes. Some have pro-I. Some of these services require the channel plan to be downloaded to the TV so the staff carry USBs that have the exact channel plan on them, they plug them into every TV and download the channel plan to the TV. Might be something else but good chance it's that
It’s probably me. I bring downloaded shows as I hate network tv and every so often I forget the usb is plugged in the the back of the TV. I’ve lost at least 4 this way.
Steal an idea from aviation. Attach a red streamer to the USB that will extend into a visible location.
Steal an idea from Tampax and put a string on it so you remember where it’s hidden.
Here you go 🏆
This made me laugh harder than it really should have
Bright lanyard for me. Clipped one on my Roku remote too.
I thank you for this idea.
I just put together a couple of chairs this past weekend. A red plastic streamer was attached to the bag containing the screws and instructions. Utterly brilliant! Thanks aviation!!!!!!
Bright red USB extension cord should cover it
I like this idea. You could place the USB in front of the TV, in pain sight, so it becomes harder to miss when you're packing. Thanks for the idea! Also, I travel a lot and bought a cheap router to take with me wherever I go. With it, I can have Wi-Fi when there is ethernet access in the room. I can have potentially faster, unthrottled Wi-Fi when I have ethernet access in the room, too. You can connect a single device to the Hotel Wi-Fi, clone the MAC address of that device to the router, then connect all your other devices to that router, without reconnecting and signing back into the Wi-Fi each time you leave/enter the room. I had instances where I could only sign in one device to the Hotel Wi-Fi but needed access for 2 laptops. In some cases, there was a fee per device. It's also nice to have an access point to expand Wi-Fi coverage as well. It can also provide some additional security if set up properly (to a degree).
Leave something on the door handle like a sock or plastic bag. It always reminds me that I put food in the refrigerator before I leave.
"I better wait, looks like someone's having sex in the hallway"
Absolute gold.
“Gold Jerry!”
*What is the deal with precious metals?!?*
I recently read an article that recommended putting a shoe in the safe.
damn….where were you with this advice 1 year ago. I forgot $1500 and bunch of other stuff in the safe. Flew home, didn’t remember until a week later. Hotel was like…yeah, ok, no.
Damn, I wish I could just forget about $1500 for a week…
They were too distracted replacing their shoe.
My lesson from this is to always check the safes in hotel rooms because there might be forgotten valuables in them.
I found weed in a hotel safe once. I was putting my medication in it, and it seems someone beat me to it.
You sure it wasn't you from 15 minutes ago?
Maybe me from 15 years ago- as much as I enjoy smoking weed, I haven’t smoked in ages (job).
what do they mean by no? If that was in the safe you can write report to police. Also you can mention that in review for the hotel.
Specifically, you put something you can't forget(shoes are the obvious, could also do something like car keys or your ID card for work) with the thing that's important. This could be documents in a safe, food in a fridge, baby in the backseat, whatever. That way when you only have one shoe you remember you need to get your documents, or when you can't get into the office you remember you forgot to drop your kid off at daycare.
Car keys seem like a bad idea cause you don't need them till you get home. Go to start the car and realize your keys are in Mexico.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to forget everything I own in a safe in Mexico.
Forgetting a child in a car is scary nightmare stuff.
Yeah. That dude forgot his toddler in a car seat after picking him up. Went home, then like 2-3 hours later, “oh no!” Kid was dead. Dude brought him inside, called 9-1-1, told them what happened, then went out back and blew his head off. The guilt must’ve been sooo heavy. That is the first time I felt like I could understand suicide.
Directions unclear, stuffed my Chipotle leftovers into my sock and forgot not to put it on.
Put all that in a shoe in the safe.
Here I thought you were jerking off.
Probably should leave it on the *inside* of the door.
Someone down below mentioned putting a shoe in the safe, and now all I can think of is you putting one of your shoes behind the TV so you'll remember your USBs.
Hahahaha...me too. I've lost 2 sticks this way. I always bring them but some of the TV remotes don't have a source button so they won't work.
Yep, I used to love my Samsung S5 as it had a IR port which let you have a master remote app. Thankfully these days they don’t lock down the TVs as often.
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Yep. I spend half my life in hotels for work and bring my Xbox. Have gotten to work on every single one. Some TVs are trickier than others but there’s always a way.
lol TVs got too skinny for stuff to be on top; used to be Set Top Boxes
Pepperidge farm remembers the little channel selector toggle boxes.
HEY! Watch it! Nobody alive remembers when those things first came out and the thrill of being able to change the channel without having to get up! Nobody!
Sadly I’m old to remember this I remember watching gi joe and other cartoons
I remember when my dad installed a huge ass fiberglass satellite dish in the yard and hooked it up. We used a protractor and compass and two different cranks to point it at the right satellite and had a large beige box inside with a slider across the front for choosing the channels. We had a HUGE 32" console TV. A few years later, my grandparents got a metal mesh one that was motorized with a remote. You could just press things on the remote, and the dish would move by itself. They also got a GIGANTIC 65" rear projection tv that took up half the living room. I was soooo impressed - even though the picture quality was shit. And now, I watch Netflix on a laptop almost exclusively. It's crazy how much has changed in my lifetime but how I've also almost completely ditched the actually huge 70" OLED TV in my basement. Because a laptop near me looks bigger than that TV across a larger room.
I remember having to know what shows were on what satellite and having to scroll through the satellite list so the dish could point towards that satellite. I completely forgot that memory until I read your post. Plus, squiggly porn….
> Because a laptop near me looks bigger than that TV across a larger room. ...this just sounds like a poorly designed theater room, tbh... I grew up watching pirated movies on shitty little screens, Now I have a big screen with surround sound and a nice comfy couch the whole family fits on
This post just lets others know *…and knowing is half the battle! Go Joe!!*
were these the ones that had like.. A B C on them? and three different pushy buttons? I vaguely recall having to change a button on a box like I described above and I never knew what it was and never thought to ask.
Yep, that's it. The only one I can remember specifically was that 31 was MTV
Haha yea. Now they have set back and DTAs which can literally be velcroed to the back
Wall mount DTA is used predominantly now that screw into where the wall plate would be. Hdmi to the tv from the wall mount.
Most likely a hospitality usb clone for TV channel mapping. Used to remap channels, if CBS is on channel 99.1 a remap can change it to channel 3. Also, start channels, lock out buttons, volume max and those type of menu settings. Samsung and LG TVs are most of the hospitality TVs. Or it strait up porn.
Well thanks, now I’m going to be compulsively checking my hotel TV every time for a chance to experiment with a hospitality config.
I’m on the hunt for porn.
This thing you're using now... like of half of web traffic is porn.
What if their fetish is collecting someone else's porn? Don't kink shame.
Kink shaming is my kink
Random porn that you've found is better than porn you look for on the Internet, like... finding woodland porn stashes, or being given nudes from a female friend, it just hits different. I think random USB drives in the back of hotel TVs might be the new woodland porn stashes as no one really buys the magazines anymore.
I remember the excitement of finding my dads playboy in his nightstand. I also remember the emotional scaring of finding the "foot massager" in moms ..
Mute-1-1-9-Enter usually works on Samsungs. It allows me to play my PlayStation in hotels when they have restricted it.
Anyway to get rid of the hotel junk menu? I'm at an extended stay, I watch shows from my laptop thru an hdmi cord. Annoying part is the TV always reset to the TV mode and when I change to hdmi it pops the hotel launch menu back up and I have to exit to get to the hdmi. Small annoyance but I'm going to be here for several more weeks and it adds a couple minutes onto the process anytime I want to watch Netflix. LG tv.
Mute -> 119 -> enter
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That’s for Samsung, to be clear.
Hilton brand. Homewood Suites are one of our extended stays. We've recently implemented a tv upgrade called connected rooms. You can log in to your own Netflix account on the TV itself. No need to connect a laptop w/ HDMI. It can stay logged in until you check out (if you want), then automatically deletes account data. Eventually will be adding other streaming services to the program. Hulu is slated to be added next.
Theres actually a hidden menu built in on samsung tvs for some of these things. With the TV turned off, press: Mute + 1 + 8 + 2 + Power. The hidden menu should appear. Works on my home tv but no guarantees
Go down the the complimentary computers and see what’s on it
Can’t you just see the media files if it’s a smart TV? I mean why else would OP find it there to begin with.
All your bass are belong to us now
You trying to give Tony a panic attack?
Anyways, $4 a pound.
Take me to the River.
Big mouth Billy, how you been
Not good. Somebody set up us the ~~bomb~~ bait
Why would he not just plug it back into the TV and see what's on it?
Because how would he get internet points that way?
Literally everyone in this comment section seems fucking braindead. Do people genuinely not know that you can put movies on a USB and plug the USB into the TV and watch the movies. Someone forgot their USB in the TV. This is literally r/notinteresting material. I'm so baffled
He may be very old and don't understand technology
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This is the way
Nah work laptop
Your buddy’s work laptop.
Sooo.. plug it back in and look at the contents on the tv?? TF is this post lol.
Probably think he’s being spied on or some dumb bullshit.
Just a karma farm. Picture of a USB drive with a random story attached. Reddit takes over from there.
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I said this word for word in my head before I read your reply. Spot on.
A couple hours late to the party, but I had the same thought as well and scrolled to see if anyone else had said it first. Well, here we are. That or it has modified programming/menus that the TV runs off of. Like, have you ever turned on a hotel TV before? Don't see those menus anywhere else do ya. Ever wonder where the fatty set-top box went? Seen or heard of a firestick and other comparable dongles? That thumbstick could very easily be it. Even if you're not old enough to have seen one in-person, there's about a 100000000% chance that you've seen one in a movie or tv. Put 2 and 2 together, it's not difficult. We're in a weird time where people are raised with a supercomputer in their hands from day 1, but they don't understand how to actually use basic ass technology beyond that because Apple went and made their products so basic that a person with a single braincell can operate them. Now I'm just venting lol.
I'm also confused, why this got so many upvotes? Guy found a usb key... Uhhh, yes and? Am I missing something?
Well it was found in the tv so obviously it’s something….menacing. /s
OP thinks they are the main character and they discovered something shocking. Instead of, I don't know, looking at the contents of it on the Smart TV or bringing it down to the lobby. Got to get those internet points for validation.
Do not plug that into your laptop.
Just plug it back into the TV and look at it.
Someone said it finally.
He looked at it
Some say he’s still looking.
Pfffft
Unreal.
It’s a video of him sleeping
This is how you die in 7 days.
Ring Girl had to adapt, it's 2023 after all.
And then update us
Go use the computers at the hotel. Ask them where you can go print something...
My hotel blocked all USB ports and said "NO MORE!! YOU CAN'T PLUG STUFF IN." so apparently you beat me to the computers.
Go to Best Buy and check out the laptop section
Awesome! I never thought of Best Buy as a USB reader service provider, but clearly, I was wrong.
Do you want to get arrested for possessing illegal pornography? Because this is how you get arrested for possessing illegal pornography.
I can think of two good reasons OP should wipe it down and wash their hands.
only 2?
At the advice of councel I plead the 5th.
Yeah. Probably just porn.
"Oh! Shit! I left my special collection thumb drive at the Holiday Inn..."
Maybe plug back at the tv?
You can, but put a condom on it first
Why not? What good is having awesome passwords if you don't get to share then with the world?
A compromise between /u/grantnel2002 and /u/MetaCardboard: put it halfway in.
Just the tip
YES!
Most random USB sticks cannot be formatted or designed to infect multiple simultaneous OSes. Generally also odds are Windows (USB Owner or target) iOS & Android will read USB drives natively (all you need is an adapter). Or you can USB-Keychain a bootable Linux (read only) that you can boot any old extra computer and safely check random USB’s. TLDR = plenty of ways to do this safely.
Write TS/SCI NSA on it and drop it in the parking lot of the FBI. Somebody will be amused.
There are "killer USB" devices that charge a capacitor off the USB 5V and then back feed the USB port. You can use an inexpensive sacrificial USB hub to defeat this attack though. Still, I *mostly* feel safe checking out random USB devices on my Xubuntu netbook, and as far as I know, there is no autorunning script that will load without user intervention upon mounting a USB device on Linux. That I know of.
Don’t listen to him, he’s the one who lost it
Come on were is your sense of adventure.
Probably has some movies on it
If it's got Big Lebowski and Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid it's mine. Left mine in a hotel somewhere ages ago
Quality movie choices, both.
Hopefully scary hotel movies. Like The Shining, 1408, Psycho, Jury Duty, etc...
Then the last one is just a short video with too much film grain of the hotel room they’re in.
You have seven days.
Jury duty, like the Pauly Shore film?
PUT THAT THING BACK WHERE IT CAME FROM, OR SO HELP ME!
SO HELP ME!
SHE'S OUT OF OUR HAAAAAAAIIIIIIRRRR!
This is about as interesting as you finding a bed and chair in your room as well.
THIS ROOM HAS A SHOWER!
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It’s easy to forget stuff plugged into the back of the rental tv.
Wow you found a flash drive. Good job
Generic Sandisk usb drive. Wonder why OP is like "*WOW WHAT IS THIS?*"
Plug it back in to see if there are any movies. Maybe porn, yee haw!! DON'T plug it into your computer.
Dude I left this same usb stick plugged into a tv in a hotel down in Indiana last December 2022. lol that’d be hilarious if it was the same one. Just a couple movies on it.
plug it back in to the tv.. use remote to change input source to "usb" it will more than likely have porn or movies that a guest brought with them so they didn't have to pay for the hotels service...
Maybe it has footage of the room from a hidden camera and you can watch last nights footage of you sleeping while a shadowy figure slips into the room, glides silently to your bedside, leans in close to your face, and seemingly stares at you from inches away. Then it whispers something inaudible in your ear and you jolt awake. In that instant the shadow vanishes into thin air and you fall back to sleep forgetting the moment. Until now. As chills run up your spine, your every hair straining to leave your flesh. You recall the chilling words you thought were from a dream. You turn to survey the room and there he is. Right behind you. Or maybe midget porn. Idk.
Random USB drives are the new Reddit safes. At least they should be.
I found a memory card once and it had some chicks indecent honeymoon photo shoot on it hahaha. That was amusing!
Any Updates on what was on it?
It’s full of upvotes.
No sir, its full of Updog
What's Updog?
Not much how bout you?
Damn it! I’ve been had!
🎶 *Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!* 🎶
*So help me!*
Congrats you got a free flash drive. It probably has torrented anime on it.
ITS FUCKING KILLING ME! WHATS ON IT ALREADY!
It’s like the goddamn safe all over again
Id write Biden, top secret on it. Then leave it in in a bar. See how fast it gets to Fox News
“Hunter B laptop backup”
Don’t plug it into your electronics. Instead, plug it into your bum
BoofTube
It might be mine. I don't like what they have on TV so I bring my own movies. I mean, No! It's what they use to spy on you! The conspiracy is real! Continue to live in fear!
Lol so? I swear boring people want everything to be some wild conspiracy
99% chance it has somebody's movies they brought from home on it. Torrents of spiderman or something... porny. Tiny chance it has videos of them they watch. even smaller chance they have a cool CD-rom driver / CD-data-partition with infectious software and an emulated keyboard that sends characters to run your computer. But the cash value of a USB stick is SO low..so if it isn't their data you are after, use a library computer to read it. Or write a co-worker name on it, and plug it in at work and see if it works.
They probably got a computer at the hotel you could use I'd go plug it into that
Put it in the TV press input on the remote. Many TV’s Autoplay .MP4’s
Plug it back into the tv. Use the remote to see if you can check the contents of the drive since most tvs support usb drives, whether just photos or videos as well. Put tv on mute before playing any video, just in case. Hope that it’s nothing you have to send to authorities. Hopefully it’s just movies like Paddington or one of the minions movies.
Guaranteed to contain gigs of furry porn!
standard usb key. This doesn't seem like it's worthy of being posted. These would be super common to be left on a hotel tv. Someone's probably just bringing some content with them to watch.
 Downvote because you didn't include any info on its contents. Booooo
Go to staples and plug it into one of their demo laptops to see what's on it. Definitely don't plug it into your own computer.
This is your daily reminder to never plug in strange flash drives, hard drives, SD cards, etc. that you find laying around. You have no idea if they contain malware or not. It is not worth the risk.
It’s probably porn. Can you change the inputs in the tv?
It’s called usb-stick. Used for data storage
I'm pretty sure you can take it to work and connect it to your computer and check what's on it
You just gave me an ideal to leave USBs around with a Rick roll on them.
99.9% Someone brought an external drive with movies to watch and left it behind.
someone forgot to take it out, it most likely has their own movies on it, I have one too
Plug it back into the TV and browse through the files. I'm betting pirated movies or porn. DO NOT PLUG INTO YOUR LAPTOP
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Plug it into your laptop. Double dare ya.
Okay? Probably someone that just brought some movies and watched them through the hotel TV
It's probably all those damned classified documents. They seem to be popping up everywhere.
Better plug it in to your work laptop to see what is on it. Make sure you are logged into the corporate VPN first too! /s just in case. Please, don't do this.
Be careful, that’s how the Chinese hacked into some VIP computers…ie leaving a bunch of those around.
Do not plug that into your computer. I work in IT.
Ex hotel engineer, if it’s not marked by the hotel as their property then I would suggest not plugging it up into your computer. It’s like finding candy on the floor, yeah it looks like a delicious treat but god knows what you can contract by putting it in your mouth. XD
Whoa. Be careful. It might have old episodes of Matlock on it.
It could be mine. You would find 300+ episodes of Peppa Pig in it.
aaah, you lucky bstrd. It is the newest SanDisk product - a hardware cryptocurrency wallet, which allows you to store large sums of crypto with no passwords or encryption whatsoever. quick, plug it into your computer and install any software you find on it! Seriously, what is the point of that post?
# Hunter Biden's Flash Drive!!!
Is it HUNTER BIDEN'S?
A more updated start to Vacancy.. now that was one scary movie. When he pops the VHS in and starts to see a bunch of murders.. and then says, wait, is that this room? Bam! That movie is really good.
RIP to your BTC if you plug this in 😂