Man swallows Flash Drive to hide evidence

Favorite Quote: A Kingston executive said it was unclear if stomach acid could damage one of their drives. "As you might imagine, we have no actual experience with someone swallowing a USB,"

Giga-Biter In Obstruction Charge - March 2, 2010

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HeroPsycho

veritas_libertas wrote: »

Favorite Quote: A Kingston executive said it was unclear if stomach acid could damage one of their drives. "As you might imagine, we have no actual experience with someone swallowing a USB,"

Giga-Biter In Obstruction Charge - March 2, 2010

Should have bought an IronKey.

Mrock4

My hero

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RobertKaucher

doctors--concerned that the drive was not compatible with the suspect's GI tract

Live it... LOL

tiersten

Eww. I pity the poor IT person that has to deal with that drive afterwards.

veritas_libertas

RobertKaucher wrote: »

doctors--concerned that the drive was not compatible with the suspect's GI tract

Live it... LOL

GI tract was only USB 1.1, or maybe it IEEE 1394 compatible...

HeroPsycho

veritas_libertas wrote: »

GI tract was only USB 1.1, or maybe it IEEE 1394 compatible...

Or maybe the dude was old, and his stomach was running Windows 3.11...

Ahriakin

I think he's now experiencing Firewire.

veritas_libertas

Ahriakin wrote: »

I think he's now experiencing Firewire.

Harsh...

arwes

See, this was in that Edward Norton Hulk movie. He swallowed the drive and hours later barfed it up and everything was fine. I submitted that to the Mythbusters and what do they pick? The stupid assed "curving bullets" crap from Wanted. Everybody and Dynamiks mom asked for that. My contention is that during the time that passed in the movie, that thumb drive would've been too far in the digestion process (if it wasn't lodged) to be retrieved by upchucking. Also, I'm curious as to what the stomach acids would do to the circuitry.

eMeS

arwes wrote: »

Dynamiks mom...

Ella traga

Hyper-Me

RobertKaucher wrote: »

doctors--concerned that the drive was not compatible with the suspect's GI tract

Live it... LOL

"If you swallow the device into a human that is USB 2.0 compatible, you will experience improved bowel performance"

msteinhilber

eMeS wrote: »

Ella traga

She must do that just for you, I've never been so fortunate