Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Wouldn't this be a tad easy to "troll"? All you would need to do is hit that USB port with a rock and it would be completely unusable, all effort into cementing it into the wall wasted.


or put malware on it.

or really dangerously illegal content.

or use some "smart" device (instead of a "dumb" storage device) to harvest data from connected machines.

etc.


!g USB HID Exploit

Teensy etc. Hell even the nubs at Hak5 and even Steven Gibson (lol) probably have covered this.


Are there any known SD exploits? My intuition is that the format is dumb enough that there are not, but intuition makes for poor security.


Glass windows are also easy to "troll" with rocks, but that hasn't stopped people putting them into buildings and vehicles.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: