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aw3c2 on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: DeadDrops - anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-...

or put malware on it.

or really dangerously illegal content.

or use some "smart" device (instead of a "dumb" storage device) to harvest data from connected machines.

etc.

areallybadidea on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

!g USB HID Exploit

Teensy etc. Hell even the nubs at Hak5 and even Steven Gibson (lol) probably have covered this.

ynniv on Nov 28, 2012 | [–]

Are there any known SD exploits? My intuition is that the format is dumb enough that there are not, but intuition makes for poor security.

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