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Phish or Treat? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by Bring_Back_Buggy_Whips@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Those Epstein files keep popping up in the most unlikely of places.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago

turn that into a bootable android 4.4 drive

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You will never regret plugging random USB drives into your computer.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

Into my computer? Absolutely not. Never EVER.

Into my work computer? Hell yeah, what's life without a little chaos sprinkled in?

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 7 months ago

You say so, but my IT guy yelled at me for it. You know the whole "it takes three tries" thing? Well, when it still didn't work, I pushed a little harder and now the internet doesn't work any more.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Would it be possible to have something that looks like a thumbdrive but literally just shorts out the computer or would one of those things need to be bigger? 🤔

I'm not worried about viruses. I have nothing sensitive to steal stored on my machine or anything worth saving so I can always wipe the drive. But I would be wary if simply plugging a thing in could fry my PC.

[–] __hetz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I was overdue for a reminder about this site. In the same spirit "USB Killers" are indeed a thing. One I saw, a while back on Hackaday, was basically a bunch of small surface mount capacitors on a board stuffed in a generic thumb-drive type case.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

USB killers are a thing. The top three autocomplete for USB killer were ...buy, ...eBay, and ...Amazon

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer

Paper on their effectiveness on different hardware: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/137908/1/WRAP-killing-your-device-via-USB-port-Angelopoulou-2020.pdf

These are moderately easy to make and cheap to buy

The first two returns from Google were sites selling USB killers

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are we doing product placement like reddit now? Lemmy has grown up!