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Post by victorhooi »

lrvick wrote: post #144
hinkley wrote: post #100

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My school had a way to keep peripherals from wandering off, but if all you need to do is swap the cables then I’m not sure that would still work. Wrapping the cables into a wiring loom makes that process slower, assuming the loom is complicated enough. Did you ever use heat shrink? Or locking cable ties? What the school did was run a steel cable behind the desks, then put a loop of the mouse chord through a steel was…

On most keyboards and mice the cables are not soldered on the inside but just a quick connector. You can get a female/male versions of this connector placed on either side of an attiny85 for a quick solderless implant no one will ever see. Then just undo 2 screws, plug your implant inside the mouse/keyboard, screw it back. To make this harder intentionally strip the screws with a drill, understanding you will never b…

When you say strip the screw - do you mean strip the screw head, by drilling out the head?

That's evil...

(Or do you know some way to strip the thread itself).

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Post by PeterisP »

mschuster91 wrote: post #83
shadilay wrote: post #65

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Is that USB-PD compatible?

The "USB condoms" I know are USB2/3 only which means there isn't any form of PD negotiation anyway, and the oldschool Qualcomm Quickcharge and Apple's negotiation won't work either as these depend on D+/D-. A decent USB-C condom would also have to cut not just the USB2 D+/D- line, but also the USB3 SS and SBU lines... the really interesting thing is the CC wires, since without these you can't have reversible connecto…

What I hear from you is that a decent USB-C-condom needs to be a smart "MITM" device that has sufficient internal logic to proxy the power negotiation between devices at both ends.

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Post by umeshunni »

burnished wrote: post #217
cromat3 wrote: post #190

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Sounds horrible and for me it is unimaginable. In Croatia, you rarely hear that a car waa broken into even in bigger cities. In smaller towns a lot of people don't even bother to lock their cars.

I suspect it might be due to demand/ability to unload hot goods. Or maybe yall got it good in Croatia and no one feels the desire to go rifling through cars?

I suspect Croatia might have better law enforcement and attorneys than SF does (look up Chesa Boudin)

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Post by WaitWaitWha »

zarq wrote: post #210
seaman1921 wrote: post #208

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exactly, what prevents anyone from doing anything, really? haha!

"motivation" is usually the answer. Motivation can be (gaining) money, power, politics, etc.

Which begs the question, how do we raise future generations to have motivation which decreases malfeasance?

I do not think there is a simple answer, but there is one out there...

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Post by deelowe »

__alexs wrote: post #153
deelowe wrote: post #111

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Are you suggesting a stolen cable brings the same sort of premium as a new one from Apple? Regardless, I'm not suggesting this at all. My point is that there are likely ways to get something worth so little without risking significant jail time.

You may be surprised to learn that the economics of small scale theft are pretty weird. https://priceonomics.com/why-thieves-steal-soap/

This is kind of my point. I guess I underestimated the demand for iphone cables.

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

Closi wrote: post #96
zarmin wrote: post #87

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What was the codename for the project to create that system?

Probably “Project Phoenix”. If you ask any project team to come up with a project name they will probably pick ‘Project Phoenix’.

That or NexGen/NextGen.

Someone should do a study...

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Post by haswell »

When Apple inevitably removes all physical ports from some future iteration of iPhone, I wonder if they’ll use the existence of tech like this to market the change as a benefit to security.

I’m simultaneously impressed, curious and disturbed.

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Post by after_care »

ghostly_s wrote: post #236
surfsvammel wrote: post #188

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They will get a warning saying there is an air tag travelling with them. I have this problem. We have an air tag on one of my kids shoes when we are out, and whenever I’m not with them, my partner gets spammed with warnings on her phone saying there is an unknown air tag travelling with her.

> We have an air tag on one of my kids shoes when we are out what the hell?

Seems legit, kids can run away or be kidnapped. It’s important to know where your kids are.

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Post by leeoniya »

kybernetikos wrote: post #233
Eiriksmal wrote: post #3

Wow! Is the trick that we now have powerful microcomputers small enough to fit into a USB plug? That's pretty incredible technology. How many years ago did this become possible? My IT security training is dated, I am aware of the risks of plugging in a random USB key, but just a cable from a helpful "coworker"? Yikes.

> How many years ago did this become possible? I don't know, but I do know that back in 2013 you could get an ARM computer running linux and a webserver with wifi and 16Gb storage in a space the size of an SD card. That is still a bit too big to fit inside a USB plug without being obvious, but not by much. https://hackaday.com/2013/08/12/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-ca... Fitting the electronics inside the usb plug itse…

> Fitting the electronics inside the usb plug itself has been used for years in slimline usb memory sticks and in tiny readers for micro-sd too.

those readers usually heat up like crazy for any significant length transfers. good in a pinch, though.

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Post by vdqtp3 »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #227
lrvick wrote: post #172

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Which is why you should never use Master Locks. I am pretty decent at lockpicking but I can't pick a Medeco or better in any practical amount of time and very few in the world can. Little bit more money vastly reduces your attack surface.

> Little bit more money Aren't medeco padlocks like $100, whereas master lock padlocks are less than $20?

What's the value of the asset it's protecting?
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