What Do You Think About the Thumb Drive?

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A one point thumb drive arrived and anonymously ad with a quotation from the great gatsby attached, about careless people who let others clear up the mess. The whole thing was so bizarre. It came in my mail box and was addressed to me, but there was no no post stamp, so it had been dropped off at my house. And i'm pretty sure that they, they weren't trying to put malwar on my computer.

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