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# [Why People Still Fall for USB Drops in 2025](https://chaincoder.hashnode.dev/why-people-still-fall-for-usb-drops-in-2025?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

People still fall for USB drops. In 2025. In the age of AI assisted security and cloud hardened infrastructure.

Nov 28, 2025 · 11 min read · chaincoder.hashnode.dev  
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Hacking, rebuilding, dissecting. uploading myself to the internet, one piece at a time.

Aeon Flex is the writer behind Chaincoder, a blog about automation, infrastructure, and the quiet failures hiding inside modern systems. Their work focuses on how scripts reproduce bias, how abstraction erodes accountability, and why tools tend to drift toward control when nobody is watching. Chaincoder sits somewhere between technical analysis and cultural critique, written by someone who has spent too much time reading logs, reverse engineering workflows, and distrusting anything that claims to be clean, neutral, or finished.

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