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lsusb will tell you what it is pretending to be on a real os. Everyone else is hosed & hopeless. Even still, it could be intercepting & mitm'ing your devices.
by rektide 4y ago
lsusb will tell you what it is pretending to be on a real os. Everyone else is hosed & hopeless.
Even still, it could be intercepting & mitm'ing your devices. There are some potential advanced games here. But without also having a network device to exfiltrate out on, it seems pointless. As soon as you have USB networking the risk skyrockets though.
- throwaway742 4y agoThat assumes it is constantly advertising itself. If it say reconfigured itself every hour for a couple seconds the odds of seeing in on any given lsusb are quite low.
- rektide 4y agoGood call. That would be pretty suspicious unto itself, but would require different style monitoring... Watching udev I guess.