Latest Honey Stick Statistics - 42% of Lost USB Drives Are Accessed
While it has been a while since I updated the statistics on www.honeystickproject.com, there was still lots of activity. Stream 1 is now active with 8 sticks deployed in Las Vegas, Ottawa and Toronto (for a total of 33), and half of those have been accessed.
This is becoming a fun project, finding places to drop them as we travel around the globe. Thanks to Mike Sues for sponsoring devices for Stream 1. I’m aiming for 1,000 deployed devices, so I can say there is some statistical significance in these results that people will notice. But it is already an interesting response rate.
What does this data mean? I have some ideas, but I’d like to hear your thoughts. Feel free to comment below on this post.
Scott Wright
Do bored hotel staff get curious about devices in their lost and found?
Dear Honey Stick Diary -
It looks like my decision to let sleeping Honey Sticks lie was the right thing to do. I had initially discovered that if I returned to places where sticks had been dropped, people would sometimes have turned them in. This was interesting to know. However, I found it hard to consistently follow up on this practice, as the locations were not always convenient.
So, I knew that sometimes sticks would get found and be turned in to authorities, where they would sit in a Lost and Found for some period of time. But this raised a question whose answer would be just as interesting.
This week, a Honey Stick that I had left at a pay phone in a hotel lobby back in February got activated. While I don’t collect IP addresses permanently, I do run an IP address to Domain Name conversion to find out if the user was on a public ISP or a private domain. (more…)