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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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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 58 points 1 year ago

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

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 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.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

But I wanna connect to ur filesystem UwU

[-] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago
[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It's like a tractor pull for your computer.

[-] Turun@feddit.de 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 )'`

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

Can you explain what that is to the illiterate please?

[-] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

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, ...

[-] Turun@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

No it doesn't

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

Cool, thanks!

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] Uncle_Sheo217@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

plugs it directly in my ass

[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 6 points 1 year ago

Username checks out

[-] ObstreperousCanadian@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

I like to warm them up quickly in the microwave.

[-] Adori@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, it's a common attack vector

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

in this house we use iomega zip discs

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

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).

[-] unmarketableplushie@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

It has an iso of Hannah Montana Linux on it

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] comfydecal@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] comfydecal@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 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?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ApfelstrudelWAKASAGI@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

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...

What if it exploits the complex USB stack though?

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

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

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