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Probably easier to find an existing employee with financial problems and offer a duffel bag of cash to plug in a USB stick for 30 seconds.

Better still, infect his USB stick without him knowing.

This is like the opposite or corollary of the "$5 rubber hose" cryptography cracking device.

Did you mean the xkcd "crypto nerd" wrench, or is this a reference to something else?