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It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into
by mithaler 16y ago
It's a cool idea, but I worry about malware. Malware is known to be able to infect USB drives put into the machine it's on, and it only needs to be plugged into another machine to infect it. They'll have to be systematically reformatted pretty often...
- yan 16y agoYup. When I saw it, my first thought: "Better project name: Digital Glory Hole"
- diziet 16y agoI don't think it's a big deal for people running linux!
- yan 16y agoYou think incorrectly and having that assumption, you're exposing yourself to more risk. To assume Linux USB drivers, file systems and file managers don't contain vulnerabilities is to assume wrong.
- sidek 16y agoWell, less people target Linux as less use it. If I hooked up to one of these, though, it'd have to be with an isolated partition or in Haiku.
- diziet 16y agoSure, there is also the potential threat of someone breaking into my home/office and installing secret videocameras to record my keyboard and get my truecrypt password (or more easily, opening the "safe" and figuring out what string of characters in a certain notebook is it). However, I don't worry about such things, and neither would I worry connecting a random usb to my practically disposable netbook.
- Yaggo 16y ago... or any OS which doesn't automatically run an executable when mounting a volume. (I have no idea if the autorun stuff is still enabled on Win 7.)
- amalcon 16y agoSomeone could always re-wire the thing into mains power, in all probability destroying anything connected to it regardless of any software it might be running.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoNot to mention potentially killing the next person to try to use it.
- sigstoat 16y agoSince you can only touch one conductor of a USB connector at a time (or really at all) unless you stick your tongue into it, then any mains power applied to it is going to be hard pressed to cause you anything besides an uncomfortable tingling.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoHold a live power cable while walking barefoot across wet grass and I doubt you'd live to tell the tail.
- sigstoat 16y agoAh, so you do remember that the current is going to have to flow through you, and that will need something a bit more conductive than pavement and shoes.