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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 70 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Either brave or stupid plugging in a random flash drive they found on the street.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Just plug it into an air gapped machine with a Linux live environment

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How many people have one of those floating around?

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Surely lots. There are dramatically more phones on the planet than people.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Average person? Probably not many. But it's also not some expensive, rare, hard to have thing. I have several raspberry pi's that could easily serve the purpose by just not connecting a new image to a network.

[–] brunchyvirus@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the cheapest way, too bad the rpi 4/5 and future versions make it possible to write to the eeprom. Atleast it sounds like the newer ones have a way to make it write protected via a jumper or something.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure, but I mean the chances of someone creating a virus specifically to run when plugged into a pi running pi OS or other Linux os with the purpose of attacking the eeprom, delivered by dropping usb sticks in public is so ridiculously small it has to be functionally non existent.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could be a USB killer, it'll fry your PC no matter what it's running.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, you could probably solve that by breaking the casing off first if you're insistent on trying it. They don't look like a normal usb stick on the inside. Also I'd imagine it isn't really feasible to just go dropping them around but maybe you can get them cheap enough somewhere.

Yeah, not sure why you'd piss off random people with that, you'd be much better off doing some kind of ransomware attack.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That's also what I was originally thinking about.

I'd honestly just run it on my Linux laptop with the network disabled. It's old, so if it gets wrecked, I'm really not out much. And the risk of someone bothering to target Linux is incredibly small, so I'm comfortable with the risk.

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