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Can somebody recommend good charging cables with the data lanes disabled? Would put my mind at ease when I'm traveling.
You could do that, but then you'd need to forgo USB Power Delivery, Qualcomm quick charging, etc. One thing I've heard other comments mention here is a USB condom (USB data blocker). It's just a male to female adapter with only the power lines patched through, not data lines.
Got any links for those?
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I don't expect good locks to keep people out. I expect good locks to be tamper evident so I know I can't trust my system.
Unfortunately, there aren't really all that many "good locks" on the market. The Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube[1] has pretty much destroyed my faith in the modern lockmaking industry. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos
See also: C-to-C charger cables with Bluetooth remote activated dual payloads: https://sneaktechnology.com/product/usbninja-custom-type-c-t... I easily modified mine to mimmic Apple Keyboard USB IDs to avoid notifications. Works great! Cellular GPS tracking car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Locator-Professional-Listenin... Cellular GPS tracking USB charger cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124 I have…
Am I missing something? The worst thing the cable can do is send HID commands, and snoop on traffic between your USB-connectable device and PC?
There is also an editor and parser for Duckyscript – the scripting language used by the Rubber Ducky offensive USB drive – which acts as a virtual keyboard and launches keystroke injection attacks. That alone opens up a wide array of custom payloads for the O.MG cable. There also appear to be attack payloads for Windows and Ubuntu systems.
In April 2019, when the video was released, MG and the team of hackers working on the embedded cable were also developing extra functions such as detecting user activity/inactivity. According to the Hak5 listing, they also appear to have cracked another key problem: USB enumeration.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/02/omg-evil-lightni...
Can somebody recommend good charging cables with the data lanes disabled? Would put my mind at ease when I'm traveling.
I can't find any on Google that specifically are made without the data lane. Maybe these magnetic ones don't do data[0]. Could also try burning the data lanes on the lightning part of the cable[0] (although you might have issues if it's a lightning-to-C cable, I would guess it uses the data lanes for power negotiation). 0: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/3-in-1-cable-led-ligh... 1: https://nyansatan.github.io/…
I don't care much about quick charging when in a hotel room though. I just want to make sure my phone isn't being probed while I'm sleeping.
And when I need quick charging, I have the right cables and a strong external battery.
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Far better names than Microsoft or IBM
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I can't find a link referencing it, sadly.
See also: C-to-C charger cables with Bluetooth remote activated dual payloads: https://sneaktechnology.com/product/usbninja-custom-type-c-t... I easily modified mine to mimmic Apple Keyboard USB IDs to avoid notifications. Works great! Cellular GPS tracking car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Locator-Professional-Listenin... Cellular GPS tracking USB charger cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124 I have…
With growing car theft in the US I've been curious about implanting GPS trackers on my own older enthusiast vehicles. There appears to be many options on Amazon but I can't bring myself to trust any of them. Has anyone here gone down that road before?
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Far better names than Microsoft or IBM
Microsoft Integrated Microcomputer Plug-and-Play Cable Office 365 Extended Subscription for Workgroups 2021 Powered by Bing
Hey! That's my Windows 10 product key!
(not really, but felt like it could be).
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The real answer? Because these people are just like us, geeks, nerds, techies, early adopters. They are just the same people we live and work with. The film Enemy of the State (1998) was science fiction except with the parts where the techy operators were just normal nerds like us. That what was most scary part of the film not the (at the time fantastic) surveillance.
They are really quite unlike us. And our sets of norms is, shall we say, somewhat different to theirs.
See also: C-to-C charger cables with Bluetooth remote activated dual payloads: https://sneaktechnology.com/product/usbninja-custom-type-c-t... I easily modified mine to mimmic Apple Keyboard USB IDs to avoid notifications. Works great! Cellular GPS tracking car charger: https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Locator-Professional-Listenin... Cellular GPS tracking USB charger cable: https://www.ebay.com/itm/223990414124 I have…
When USB came out I was working in the defence sector. We closed the vector off with cages for the PCs with tied looms under desks, epoxy in all the holes we didn’t want people to use and with threat of being in deep shit.
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I don't expect good locks to keep people out. I expect good locks to be tamper evident so I know I can't trust my system.
Unfortunately, there aren't really all that many "good locks" on the market. The Lock Picking Lawyer on YouTube[1] has pretty much destroyed my faith in the modern lockmaking industry. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer/videos
LPL covers most locks in the wild which are bad, but locks like the Protec2 are quite strong and while it is implied one person in the world can beat it with custom tools (huxleypig)... even then not quickly.