Comment on Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone

Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s why I take mine in to work to plug in.

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  • thirdmouse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    to a coworker’s laptop.

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  • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• Igloojoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Theres also usb drives that are designed to short circuit your computer. Frying the motherboard.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    USB Killers are expensive though. No one’s intentionally ditching those for randos to find

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    • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are they? I thought they were basically just a few capacitors hooked up wrong to a USB port.

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      • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Capacitors alone are not enough.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would they? Simple boost coverter costs about 0.5€.

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• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.

    I did that once. Now it burns when IP.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Are you ever coming back with those cigarettes?

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s also the easiest way to distribute malware

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• user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Disconnect storage, disconnect network peripherals, boot live CD, profit?

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• Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But FREE Robux. LOL don’t plug in stuff

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