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Linux isn't necessarily immune to USB malware. There are a lot of drivers for USB devices in Linux and any of them could have a bug. For example people only rec
by xai3luGi 11y ago
Linux isn't necessarily immune to USB malware. There are a lot of drivers for USB devices in Linux and any of them could have a bug. For example people only recently started doing fuzzing on filesystem drivers.
- nkozyra 11y agoAbsolutely. You want something ephemeral - meaning software AND hardware you can nuke. And even that isn't 100%. What's demonstrated in this article is extremely inelegant and clumsy. Truly malicious rootkits and the like are a bit more sophisticated.