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If you're cold they're cold [Image of USB flash drive laying in grass] Put them in the computer at your work

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. Many people are suspicious of black USB sticks they find somewhere near their office building but that's just racist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's why, when I leave ransom ware outside of offices, I buy the pink ones and put stickers on em.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I put them in my charger to charge them up when i need them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

But I wanna connect to ur filesystem UwU

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can also do some performance-intensive thing on you laptop like () { :|:& };:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's like a tractor pull for your computer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Doesn't look that performance intensive to me, my phone finished it in no time.

bash: syntax error near unexpected token )'`

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the new Emoji feature for your Command Prompt/shell!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you explain what that is to the illiterate please?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's shell a program that spawns another running copy of itself, then they both spawn another copy of themselves each, then all 4 spawn another copy, ...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't

(They are missing a : at the very beginning of the code block)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cool, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

plugs it directly in my ass

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I like to warm them up quickly in the microwave.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

in this house we use iomega zip discs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Click... Click... Click...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Couldn't a company be easily be hacked if someone put a monitoring program in a usb and just casually drops it near the entrance of an office?

Employees might be curious enough to try plugging it in.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, it's a common attack vector

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Or I could put them in this convenient little USB warmer

(for those unaware this is a USB duplicator and Eraser, it duplicates or erases the contents of a USB drive onto the others at the push of a button).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It has an iso of Hannah Montana Linux on it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, you can't put them in the computer where I work. Safety protocols, you can't use any devices except that but you're provided for you by the company

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Can't" or "don't know how"?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No you can't, every device has to be approved by the company, and they need to know exactly what you're using this device for. It's so strict that literally I can't even plug my phone into a computer if I forget to bring my wall plug, in order to charge it I mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So does anything other than policy actually prevent you from doing so?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The machine will log every device that gets connected and at what time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So what happens to the device if your phone does get plugged in? Firewall at the input?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

USB connection won't work, but charging and MBT protocol generally will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Physically can't or aren't allowed to? Is there anything actually preventing it other than rules? What happens if you do?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

8 GB? What am I supposed to store on that, a jpeg thumbnail?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda wanna try buying a bunch of virus usb sticks and putting them into important pcs at work. Or leave them lying around the office.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A USB flash drive with viruses on will probably be pretty ineffective; someone would need to run the virus manually without AV picking it up which is pretty unheard of. Plus, any organisation worth it's salt will have a policy that automatically blocks drives that aren't encrypted with a company-issued encryption key.

The real risk is that a device like this can emulate any USB device, including disks, keyboards, monitors, serial devices, etc. So you plug in the key and in a split second it opens a terminal and types a dozen especially tasty commands...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What if it exploits the complex USB stack though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Careful, the US might have to form another intelligence agency if you do!