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This Little USB Necklace Hacks Your Computer In No Time Flat
TechCrunch via Hacker News ^ | Dec 18, 2014 | Sami Kamkar

Posted on 05/14/2015 5:42:34 PM PDT by 9thLife

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To: chris37

Oh I was just messing with ya on that picture.... The window on the picture of the PMAG in the AR showed “empty” ......:o)

Hope yer well....stay safe !!


21 posted on 05/15/2015 7:14:02 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Yep, yep, I know ^^

I also didn’t really mean that I stand guard at my ports with my AR.

But I was serious about my German Shepherd. She guards everything :D


22 posted on 05/15/2015 8:25:36 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: Swordmaker
It's why Apple went with the new USB-C ports. Those don't have that vulnerability.
My 5K Retina iMac says it has USB-3.0. Izzat what you mean by "USB-C"?

23 posted on 05/15/2015 2:28:34 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
My 5K Retina iMac says it has USB-3.0. Izzat what you mean by "USB-C"?

Nope. Look at the single port on the new MacBook. . .

24 posted on 05/15/2015 4:43:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: chris37
But I was serious about my German Shepherd. She guards everything :D

Probably better than anything else. . .

25 posted on 05/15/2015 4:44:19 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

That's really not her, she has a much kinder face, but she does sort of look like that when she sees a squirrel in the yard :D

26 posted on 05/15/2015 5:56:21 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: chris37

Good Doggy !!.....:o)


27 posted on 05/15/2015 6:20:08 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: __rvx86
Each USB device has a unique hardware ID...

Then shouldn't it be possible for the computer user to whitelist specific USB devices at the time of installation, and block all others? It might seem a little strange to require solving a CAPTCHA to install and whitelist a new keyboard, but wouldn't that defeat USBdriveby-like devices?

28 posted on 05/15/2015 7:48:49 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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To: TChad

Again, it should be trivial to do so...I would imagine such a feature to appear in hardened Linuxes...the functionality to detect and identify USB devices by HW-ID already exists...

Windows, OTOH, would require sort of a K-mode device driver; that is, a driver that loads while Windows NT is still in native/kernel mode, before loading userland components.

Much like a real-time Antiviral...Grisoft’s Anti-Virus Guard comes to mind...in kernel mode, it has its own drivers that are loaded at boot time, ostensibly to protect the system as soon as NTKRPAMP.EXE (multiprocessor, PAE-mode kernel; usually the default kernel on most computers these days) is loaded...


29 posted on 05/16/2015 12:11:59 AM PDT by __rvx86 (Ted Cruz: Proving that conservative populism is a winning strategy. GO CRUZ!)
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