"I can read!" And other tales

[Mark Healey]

... Which is why it would seem like a good idea to teach stupid people the "proper" way of popping/pulling a Thumb/Jump Drive. One less way for them to shot themselves in the foot!

That's a result of bad industrial design, or more in this case technology being used for something that it wasn't planned for. USB wasn't designed for removable media so it doesn't have a mechanism to prevent people from removing the while it is being written to. If the designers knew that it was going to be used for such things they would have put in some kind of locking pin that would be controlled by the computer to prevent removal while writing.

Since they didn't I always unmount it before removing it, even if I know that it isn't being written to.