Journalist Hurt by Exploding USB Bomb Drive
22nd March 2023
Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Xavier Chango Llerena, chief of criminal investigations for the National Police of Ecuador, said authorities had found envelopes containing presumed explosive devices at four media outlets, two in Guayaquil and two in Quito, and at a parcel delivery company.
It’s not clear to me that you could pack enough explosive into a thumb drive to do any good, although it would certainly scare the snot out of somebody–and maybe that’s good enough.