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Seems like a technique for the scammers on Ebay who sell you an external hard drive filled with a heavy bolt and a 1GB flash stick. They program the drive to
by supernova87a 6y ago
Seems like a technique for the scammers on Ebay who sell you an external hard drive filled with a heavy bolt and a 1GB flash stick. They program the drive to read 1TB but rewrite the 1GB over and over.
Worst thing is you never know until you need the data you wrote...
- wila 6y agoIt works until you eject the disk says tfa.
- breakingcups 6y agoNo, that's way easier to accomplish.
- segfaultbuserr 6y ago> They program the drive to read 1TB but rewrite the 1GB over and over. My understanding is that they didn't specifically write a "program" to do it, all they did was to "program" a bunch of false configuration data to the USB flash controller and let it silently corrupt the flash. If you can find their internal programming tools on the web, they can even be fixed by program the correct configuration back. >Worst thing is you never know until you need the data you wrote... It's worthwhile to run dd+sha256sum or badblocks(8) on suspicious USB drives.
- cmurf 6y agoFight Flash Fraud https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3 https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3