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As long as you wipe and format the flash drive from the secure computer every time you use it, there shouldn't be any risk. I don't think even Stuxnet could ha
by dublinben 13y ago
As long as you wipe and format the flash drive from the secure computer every time you use it, there shouldn't be any risk. I don't think even Stuxnet could have infected a linux machine that didn't mount or autorun the partition.
- sneak 13y agoFlash drives are not dumb. I know that Travis Goodspeed has had some success in reflashing their microcontrollers to speak corrupt USB to attack USB stacks of host machines (which of course run in kernel mode).
- dublinben 13y agoI guess the only safe options are CDRs and one-way ethernet connections.
- lesterbuck 13y agoA fascinating talk by Travis Goodspeed on the mayhem possible by reprogramming the USB controller in a disk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8 Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch: Prototyping Active Disk Anti-Forensics
- jonknee 13y agoStuxnet was bespoke malware with multiple 0days--the reason it worked like it did was because of how the target's computers were set up. If Iran had used Linux they would have likely used different vulnerabilities to [try and] accomplish the same goal.