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The Ars article that Tom’s referenced from has that info: > Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that
by mathgeek 4y ago
The Ars article that Tom’s referenced from has that info:
> Scammer gets two 512MB Flash drives. Or 1 gigabyte, or whatever. They then add hacked firmware that makes it misreport its size.
- ryanschneider 4y agoI’m curious why they bothered to add two microSD cards, but I wonder if that somehow actually makes the hack easier? Like maybe the firmware only needs to be patched in one spot to report a fake size when running in “RAID” mode?
- prmoustache 4y agoBecause they count on the fact that transfer rate is so slow people will really realize this too late. I guess this kind of business create an account on amazon, aliexpress and others, scam thousands of users for a month or two, close their accounts, create a new one before they get annoyed by disputes and everything.
- jetbalsa 4y agoand might be able to get the boards cheaper, if they are old stock left over and easy to hack. then why not
- numpad0 4y agoMaybe this is built on an existing, legitimate product that require both slots to be populated to work?