The USB Stick Found in the Grass

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  • Publisher: BPP
  • Release Date: Jan 29, 2021
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  1. CD-Action
    Oct 12, 2021
    80
    After a brief introduction, you get access to a virtual USB flash drive found at the scene of a possible crime. You browse its contents (photos, apps, books, videos, a journal and a password-protected archive) in Windows to determine whether the device really is connected to some awful occurrence. The most important file is the journal, which in fact is an extremely well-written crime story. Reading it, analyzing the files for clues and looking for a way to crack the password was truly thrilling. [04/2021, p.58]
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  1. Esperantisto
    Mar 25, 2022
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    You're a police detective doing an investigation (because "someone was probably harming someone else or something" -- you must be from theYou're a police detective doing an investigation (because "someone was probably harming someone else or something" -- you must be from the feared "no harm to things" squad). You find a USB stick and examine it to try to find clues.

    Playing this game adds a virtual drive to your system. The drive imitates a USB stick with real programs: Open Office, Irfanview, and so on. The programs can actually be run, and install themselves on your real system. One of the programs is Quicktime 7.74, which has known security problems and hasn't been updated since 2016.

    From a security viewpoint, I find this extremely foolhardy. One of the programs already is insecure, and It's much too easy to push an update that would install a real virus on the virtual drive, and then on your system. From a practical viewpoint, I'm upset that a game would install real programs on my computer.

    Two languages are available, Polish and English. Even if you choose English, the first screen is in Polish. That's confusing: I wasted some time wondering why I couldn't get English, until I decided to continue in Polish and saw that the game later changed to English.

    0/10 for the security risk and modifying your system.    … Full Review »
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