1y ago

Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone

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Remember kids, don't ever plug something in to your computer that you don't trust or are unsure about. Picking up flashdrive off the street and plugging them in is one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer.
- That's why I take mine in to work to plug in.
  
  to a coworker's laptop.
  
  Gotta test it on the expendable company network before you take it home.
  
  Previous work got USB sent to them via post and they had to access the data on this drives. These drives came from end customers, so they had two computers specifically for the purpose of retrieving images from the USB sticks and burning them on CDs.
- Theres also usb drives that are designed to short circuit your computer. Frying the motherboard.
  
  USB Killers are expensive though. No one's intentionally ditching those for randos to find
  
  Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.
  
  Capacitors alone are not enough.
  
  Capacitors a transistor and an op-amp. Thats a couple cents of components.
  
  Still not enough
  
  Whats missing?
  
  Inductor and diode.
  
  Expensive is relative. You can find a sketchy USB Killer on AliExpress for like $6.
  Maybe expensive as a single throwaway device, but not very expensive to cause pure chaos to a bunch of random people.
  
  Why would they? Simple boost coverter costs about 0.5€.
- one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer
  Only if you are the child of an Iran nuclear engineer. (cough stuxnet cough. )
  If not, visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
  
  visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.
  I did that once. Now it burns when IP.
  
  Are you ever coming back with those cigarettes?
- It’s also the easiest way to distribute malware
- Disconnect storage, disconnect network peripherals, boot live CD, profit?
- But FREE Robux. LOL don't plug in stuff
- Easiest? Whut? Hold my beer 🤣

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