Sorry - to clarify, this means that they're not to be relied on (rather than immediately dangerous)?

Joe

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 at 21:30 Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <nwilson@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Just FYI, regarding the square green USB sticks,[0] that you might have received amongst the Lombardy region travel information -
I tried to check and format two of the USB sticks (one given to me by a roommate), using the linux utility badblocks[1].
Both USB sticks failed the first pass, in nearly the same section (block 516544 and block 515904). I will not be using either of them, and I suggest caution (or your own personal testing) before relying upon any from this batch.

Hope that helps. (The t-shirt thread reminded me to send this. :)

[0] with this design https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Lombardy_square.svg

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badblocks

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