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Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by Johnny555 »

willcipriano wrote: post #48
ctxc wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in the context of this project: Please don't dismiss this so easily. You don't need to be the head of anything to take security seriously. Regardless of who you are or what you do, everybody has secrets they should protect. And I mean secrets not only in the "human" sense (what you like/dislike), but also technical (credentials and so on). Losing say, your bank account because you plugged in a USB can be devastat…

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise. We all have a line. You may not plug things into your USB ports, some people don't even connect to the internet. Either way, if I have a secret I'm sure as hell not going to write it down, let alone put evidence of it on a computer. Defraud my bank if you want, that's between you and them and honestly the…

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise.

Then put someone else's contact details on it "Hey man, I just found this 'linux business card' with Linus Torvald's contact information on it -- plug it in and try it!"

Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

Johnny555 wrote: post #51
willcipriano wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise. We all have a line. You may not plug things into your USB ports, some people don't even connect to the internet. Either way, if I have a secret I'm sure as hell not going to write it down, let alone put evidence of it on a computer. Defraud my bank if you want, that's between you and them and honestly the…

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise. Then put someone else's contact details on it "Hey man, I just found this 'linux business card' with Linus Torvald's contact information on it -- plug it in and try it!"

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Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by brigandish »

willcipriano wrote: post #19
ceejayoz wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree it's cool; that's why I prefaced everything with "Cool project". > the world advances much more via optimism than pessimism I don't think that's a slogan infosec folks frequently adopt.

Infosec folks should live a little. You can have more than one computer and not everyone is a head of state.

Only heads of state are targets of black hat hackers?

The proliferation of virus scanners, firewall products and spam filters either means we have a lot of heads of state or a lot of people rich enough to own several computers and not give a damn about at least one of them.

Or the risk assessment is wrong, of course.

Re: My business card runs Linux

#54

Post by sergers »

Not sure who was first(as the article linked isn't dated), but remember seeing something a few years back that someone else created as a business Linux card

Tracked it down: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/24/now-even-your-business-card-...

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...

This design looks better.

Both creative

Edit: somehow I duplicate posted when I edited my last comment, qchris beat me to posting this (and was on HN in 2019, I think I probably saw it on hackaday at the time)

Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by willcipriano »

Johnny555 wrote: post #51
willcipriano wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise. We all have a line. You may not plug things into your USB ports, some people don't even connect to the internet. Either way, if I have a secret I'm sure as hell not going to write it down, let alone put evidence of it on a computer. Defraud my bank if you want, that's between you and them and honestly the…

If you wanted to do something nefarious, using a medium that has your contact details printed on it seems unwise. Then put someone else's contact details on it "Hey man, I just found this 'linux business card' with Linus Torvald's contact information on it -- plug it in and try it!"

I'd notice it isn't Linus handing me his business card. The author is handing this to people in person. I wouldn't use it if he was wearing a ski mask. If you are already there, showing your face, commiting crimes, just use a gun to get whatever you want and skip the cloak and dagger stuff.

Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by brigandish »

Swizec wrote: post #41
legalcorrection wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s all fun and games until your wife’s nudes or your most private messages are leaked.

The world would be a much better place if we all agreed everyone’s naked under their clothes and it’s no big deal. Oh and most grownups have consensual sex occasionally. Shocker! And they drink too :O Sometimes even break minor laws!!

> everyone’s naked under their clothes and it’s no big deal

Until the day you render human biological urges inconsequential to the one experiencing them, all that phrase adds up to is the kind of line a teenage boy uses to get his girlfriend's clothes off.

Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

phreack wrote: post #18
qchris wrote: post #3

Past HN thread on a similar project that had a lot of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026

I had deja vu and was about to check the date to suggest adding it to the title but whoa, it's a different one with the exact same title.

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Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by brigandish »

notjulianjaynes wrote: post #32
ceejayoz wrote: post #6

"Hey, stranger! Here's my card. Plug it into your computer's USB slot." Cool project, but as a business card, making someone think they're about to install Stuxnet might not be the best first impression. Heh.

On the other hand, if you want to covertly infect someone's computer, probably don't etch your name and contact information prominently on the PCB of the infecting device.

I'm going to assume that someone handing me their contact details is someone I probably don't know well enough to know whether those details are correct.

Re: My business card runs Linux

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Post by bravetraveler »

notjulianjaynes wrote: post #32
ceejayoz wrote: post #6

"Hey, stranger! Here's my card. Plug it into your computer's USB slot." Cool project, but as a business card, making someone think they're about to install Stuxnet might not be the best first impression. Heh.

On the other hand, if you want to covertly infect someone's computer, probably don't etch your name and contact information prominently on the PCB of the infecting device.

Why would anyone? You want it to be plausible, but obviously not a loose thread. It'd be a good [and I would hope, obvious] idea to misdirect
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