Found a Honey Stick?
If you think you have found a Honey Stick belonging to the Honey Stick Project, there is some information for you below. However, in any case of finding a Mobile Storage Device, it is usually impossible to tell if there is any dangerous content on it without using it… so if you haven’t already put it into a machine, don’t do it unless you are sure you know how to disable any programs from running automatically when a removable storage device is plugged in. This is usually called “autorun” functionality.
If you aren’t sure how to disable autorun for removable storage devices, simply turn in the device to the nearest person of authority for the area you found it in.
If you choose to plug the device in to see what’s on it, you do so at your own risk. There may be viruses, trojan horse programs or spyware on any device that you have found, that can install itself and can permanently damage your system.
If you have plugged the device in and want to know if it is a Honey Stick Project device, you can check for the existence of a file with the name “owner_contact_info” and several other files including many with HTML extensions. You can use any plain text editor such as Notepad on Windows to open the owner_contact_info file. Inside that file is information on how to report the discovery of the Honey Stick back to the project.
The best method is to use the email address provided in the file, which has an email address ending in “@honeystickproject.com”. Reporting that you have found the device by using the information in this file is virtually the only way of letting me know you have found the device without opening the files by double-clicking on them to open them.
After reporting the find through the contact info provided, you are free to keep the device for your own use or return it to the mailing address provided.
I’d also be interested in any comments you have on the experiment and your part in it.
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Found a Honey Stick?
If you think you have found a Honey Stick belonging to the Honey Stick Project, there is some information for you below. However, in any case of finding a Mobile Storage Device, it is usually impossible to tell if there is any dangerous content on it without using it… so if you haven’t already put it into a machine, don’t do it unless you are sure you know how to disable any programs from running automatically when a removable storage device is plugged in. This is usually called “autorun” functionality.
If you aren’t sure how to disable autorun for removable storage devices, simply turn in the device to the nearest person of authority for the area you found it in.
If you choose to plug the device in to see what’s on it, you do so at your own risk. There may be viruses, trojan horse programs or spyware on any device that you have found, that can install itself and can permanently damage your system.
If you have plugged the device in and want to know if it is a Honey Stick Project device, you can check for the existence of a file with the name “owner_contact_info” and several other files including many with HTML extensions. You can use any plain text editor such as Notepad on Windows to open the owner_contact_info file. Inside that file is information on how to report the discovery of the Honey Stick back to the project.
The best method is to use the email address provided in the file, which has an email address ending in “@honeystickproject.com”. Reporting that you have found the device by using the information in this file is virtually the only way of letting me know you have found the device without opening the files by double-clicking on them to open them.
After reporting the find through the contact info provided, you are free to keep the device for your own use or return it to the mailing address provided.
I’d also be interested in any comments you have on the experiment and your part in it.