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Nope. Author of this piece didn't talk about USB electrical attacks, which (IMHO) are a bit more potent and harder to spot by the untrained eye: http://www.tom
by danesparza 10y ago
Nope.
Author of this piece didn't talk about USB electrical attacks, which (IMHO) are a bit more potent and harder to spot by the untrained eye:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-killer-2.0-power-surge-attack,32669.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/usb-killer-2.0-power-surge-...
- toomanybeersies 10y agoDon't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards. My friend accidentally jammed his headphones into the front USB socket on his PC and killed the motherboard. Of course it doesn't work on all computers, my old laptop would just shut down (which is still inconvenient), and I'm not sure what would happen to my Macbook (and don't want to find out).
- martinko 10y agoJammed a dinner knife in my usb 3 port and I just got a windows notification that one of my usb ports had a power surge...
- colejohnson66 10y agoHow do you accidentally jam a headphone plug into a USB receptacle?
- detaro 10y agoBlindly trying to plug it in and getting the location wrong? I've seen people jam USB sticks diagonally in Ethernet ports...
- toomanybeersies 10y agoRight next to each other, and a usb port is apparently just large enough to take a 3.5 mm plug.
- qb45 10y ago> Don't even need to go that far. Just short all the pins and you will will kill a lot of motherboards. Interesting. USB 2.0 spec mandates overcurrent protection on the power rail and ability to withstand continuous short circuit to ground or power on the data pins. I think 3.0 lifted the latter requirement, though. But I never tested actual hardware for that, besides power short-circuit protection which seems to work on my machine (YMMV).