The US Government is warning us all to be cautious with USB Sticks/Thumb Drives this coming holiday season.It seems that there are now Infected Picture Frames on the market. You load your picture of Grandma on your USB Stick from your PC, put it in the Picture Frame, where it gets infected, then when you put it back on your Windows PC it gets infected.
They never mention that it is Windows that has all of those problems, and not Linux, xBSD etc.
Interesting countermeasure that just came out, a true self destructing part from Maxim.
Maxim makes the greatest parts on paper but their reputation for poor delivery are well known in the Embedded Design world. I've worked in two companies where designing in Maxim is out right band. Even their distributor in the area discouraged their use because of the continually screwing of their customers on delivery dates. Then Maxim took away their franchise rights and gave it to an other company, because they did not understand why their product line did so poorly in the "Rust Belt". A Maxim rep. was once at a meeting I was in, where they walked in to the room and said "I don't make it out here to the Rust Belt very often" with glee. If they view us that way here, maybe they should not come at all...