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) <[email protected]>
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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