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Stuxnet deployment wasn't just a USB stick, though. It was a USB stick w/ a zero-day in the Windows shell for handling LNK files to get arbitrary code execution. That's not to say that random thumb drives being plugged-in by users is good, but Stuxnet deployment was a more sophisticated attack than just relying on the user to run a program.

(They will run programs, though. They always do.)



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