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> [0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/04/i-told-you-so-again/ Sorry for the digression, but WTF is this guy doing? Looks like he redirects all requests that have HN as the referrer to a picture of a testicle. Copy-pasting the link (i.e., dropping the referrer) seems to work, though.
Oh wow, I wasn't aware of that. Sorry about that.
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It's funny when I think back, I was a teen in the 90s and did plenty of questionable stuff online and w/ local BBS scene (Kevin Mitnick was busted in Raleigh and many rumors existed about his presence in the BBS scene, obviously fantasy though!). Nobody I know who got arrested ever managed to destroy anything. When I think about it, we all assumed the cops would storm in when we were in the act of doing something bad…
This is how you earn tampering with evidence charges, up to 20 years felony.
After 18, you're done, even if they can't think of a good charge, they'll make them up, which is exactly what they did back then, cross state commerce was a blanket thing to grab folks.
I stopped doing anything questionable well before I turned 18.
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This is how you earn tampering with evidence charges, up to 20 years felony.
Eh, it's worth it, depending on what you're doing. I'd much rather get in trouble for a hard drive full of zeroes, than them knowing what was on it beforehand. Today, you should encrypt everything, and cut power before physical access is obtained. Will that count as "tampering"? I was just turning off my computer. No, I do not remember the key.
In practice, the only real protection we had (those of us in my social group) was that we were minors, and lucky that laws hadn't caught up yet.
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It is. The program tries to prevent use of unauthorized USB devices, yet it uses the easily spoofed USB device IDs to authenticate them.
It isn't. The problem this program solves is thwarting a naive attempt to alter the state of the USB bus. The design assumes the attacker is not aware of the consequences of adding or removing devices and has no reason to employ spoofed devices or any other Ever Greater Adversary Regression techniques you can imagine.
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>Many USB drives already have small embedded CPU in them. For most common hardware this is just an 8051 variant that sets up the USB and DMA peripherals. It's easy enough to get something more powerful, but I am doubtful you'd want to reuse consumer hardware.
The 8051 is a decently capable CPU (it is the cpu at the heart of the furby toy). At one point they built whole computer ecosystems around it. Remember the point here is to take over the computer not have a full out modern OS. They USB manufactures use them because they work well on low power and are decently cheap and small. Now most usb sticks do not do much more than like you say. But that would not stop someone f…
In this case any kind of MCU is making life harder than it needs to be.