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Thumbsucking, similar to podslurping, is the intentional or undeliberate use of a portable [[USB mass storage device class|USB mass storage device]], such as a [[USB flash drive]] (or "thumbdrive"), to illicitly download confidential data from a network endpoint.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thumbsuckingthreat.com/index.html |title=Do you know who is sucking data from your computer? |accessdate=15 February 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819080552/http://www.thumbsuckingthreat.com/index.html |archivedate=August 19, 2007 }}</ref>
A USB flash drive was allegedly used to remove without authorization highly classified documents about the design of U.S. nuclear weapons from a vault at Los Alamos.<ref>[http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fprintout%2F0%2C8816%2C1612912%2C00.html Zagorin, Adam "A breach in nuclear security."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131170402/http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fprintout%2F0%2C8816%2C1612912%2C00.html |date=2008-01-31 }} Time, April 19, 2007. Retrieved April 21, 2007</ref>
The threat of thumbsucking has been amplified for a number of reasons, including the following:
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