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Integrating everything into USB has been great at physical simplification, but it really opened up the attack surface. First party malware is the worst.
by jjoonathan 3y ago
Integrating everything into USB has been great at physical simplification, but it really opened up the attack surface.
First party malware is the worst.
- kibwen 3y agoFrom the photos, this looks like a Lightning cable, not a USB cable.
- mutex_man 3y agoThey're referring to the USB protocol, which lightning uses.
- tavavex 3y agoCan't wait for the consumer keyboard that saves everything that was typed to it and/or executes things on its own
- fragmede 3y agousb keyloggers have existed since just after USB came out, and badusb is totally a thing.
- tavavex 3y agoThey have, but all of them are "personalized" attacks - as in, a malicious person needs to install these on specifically your computer, without your knowledge. What I was talking about is some kind of device from some noname Chinese manufacturer that presents as harmless, but actually sends off some additional data back home
- parker_mountain 3y agoYeah, it was sold to schools in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
- tavavex 3y agoOh yeah, I remember reading about the AlphaSmart somewhere! Though it is quite different from an ordinary-keyboard-looking spying device that I tried to describe in my original comment. The AlphaSmart feels like more of a digital typewriter that just had a really primitive data transfer method
- nikau 3y agoNot at all. Usbc is just the connector. Running display port graphics over usbc is no less safe than using a bigger display port connector.
- brookst 3y agoCan a rogue displayport peripheral present as a storage device, keyboard, etc?
- nikau 3y agoAnswer is "it depends". USB-C always has a usb2 channel available, then 4 lanes that can be display port or thunderbolt or usb2/3 or whatever else. This is why most android phones have options for USB including "charge only".
- lathiat 3y agoRight but a normal DisplayPort or Mini DisplayPort connector doesn’t have USB…