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Wow, I have to be impressed though with the lengths they go to to keep up the charade. Hacking the firmware and creating fake files if you go over the real limi
by brundolf 4y ago
Wow, I have to be impressed though with the lengths they go to to keep up the charade. Hacking the firmware and creating fake files if you go over the real limit. Many people might never find out it's a fake (how many people who don't immediately know this is a scam are actually going to fill up that much space and find out?)
- netsharc 4y agoThe firmware hacking to fake the size isn't new in the whole fake USB drive scene, the new part of it is that it's being sold on Walmart.com . Some commenters have said it's a marketplace product, but I visited the page and I can't even spot an indicator to say so.
- bombcar 4y agoApparently the indicator only appears when it is in stock. Which kind of makes sense but is still annoying. It’s getting harder and harder to find non marketplace sellers at both Amazon and Walmart. Starting to default to target and Home Depot and Best Buy for now.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- mindslight 4y agoThat's the standard way of making fake memory cards. The "innovation" of this scam is the nice enclosure. The firmware is actually not much of a hack, but quite in line with how flash memory operates. Flash memory can't be modified, but rather needs to be bulk erased and then written. Thus an address doesn't indicate a physical place but rather goes through some indirection data structure. The hacked firmware just reports a larger capacity, and silently discards older blocks it's supposed to be hanging onto.
- rep_lodsb 4y agoPresumably it'll fail quickly if you use full disk encryption. Or any filesystem other than NTFS, if it somehow interprets that in order to not overwrite directory blocks.