If you have docker containers and other stuff all on that USB drive I’d really reccomend getting it all off that USB (not just logging) and onto a proper drive of some kind. USB thumb sticks are not reliable long term storage, you will wake up to find the drive failing one day and good chance you lose everything on it with little to no warning.
Control, and a means of targeting anyone who they want to paint as “the other”.
Did you hear what happened to Jimmy? Taken away to prison because he looked at GILF content.
It’s only one step away from all the people who mysteriously fall out of windows in Russia.