These photos were taken May 30th 2020.

For those who didn’t see, I received this weird USB taped on the inside of a box that had an electronic I purchased. The box seemed to have been opened and retaped shut though I can’t say for sure, it just looked like it had been taped two separate times (no pictures beyond these btw this is all just memory). I checked and double-checked the site I bought the electronic from, there was no mention anywhere of it coming with a free USB.

This was immediately following a time period where I had been…well, saying a lot of pro-communist, anti-capitalist, pro-violence things online and had been searching for guns and related materials to buy. This is all also following 2016, when two FBI agents showed up at my house (not entirely related to politics, I was not nearly as communist then as I am now, just for general violent threats and volatility) and I had been followed around by at least two separate cars for 3-4 weeks following their visit. Nothing else since then has been a FOR SURE FOR SURE instance of what I felt like was FBI sniffing me out, but ever since then I’ve assumed that I am, at the very least, passively monitored, even if just by cheap bots (which I’m sure every American is to varying degrees).

I am not at all tech savvy and have very poor information hygiene and sense of cyber security, I did not trust myself to try and access its contents. It gave me really dark vibes just sitting on my desk so I stored it in a secret safe place where it still is to this day (but which I will not be able to access for at least a month or two, if not longer–don’t want to say why as I don’t want to give away its position on the crazy off chance somebody is reading this that shouldn’t be). I knew putting this shit into my laptop would be STUPID even if it was just a crazy coincidence and totally harmless, I thought about trying to take it to a library but even then I don’t fully understand the consequences of what those actions would be so I didn’t want to mess with it. It has done nothing but collect dust for 2 years now.

I want to stress that I don’t know literally anything about this, it could just as easily be some sort of error and they accidentally gave me a free USB and I’m just tweaking out and being paranoid, just like they want me to be. I’m not trying to stir up a story about this, I don’t know if there’s any story to be had, but a picture was requested and I figured I’d share it with everyone because it definitely is, at the very least IMO, a weird little story with no resolution (at least not one that I am going to feel confident in pursuing).

EDIT: More random details