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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

USB devices have a hard coded vendor identifier and product identifier built into them that are issued from a central authority. The ones I saw were easily identifiable as not legitimate mice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I know but you can change it, I think, at least in the bad usb devices that we use for red team