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Ask HN: How concerned should we be about USB security?

2 points·by turkishdelight·vor 10 Monaten·11 comments

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turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I had a teacher in high school that married a Chinese woman, and when her parents came over they said "Your propaganda is so refreshing, you hardly even notice it."

It's always struck me how hamfisted the Chinese government sound in its communications.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I mostly know Trump through news sites like AP and Reuters. I heard one of his speeches after a flight accident early in his term though and he was blaming retards and amputee midgets for the collisions.

Didn't see any mention of that in the news.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
> Cracker Barrel was never a "general store". It was always a restaurant. A "general store" is not a restaurant. It's a small retail outlet that sells most of the things a farmer needs.

Yeah but how many restaurants sold real leather bullwhips to kids (in the 90s)?
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Thank you, I appreciate this.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
He had an Anker dongle IIRC (and I run Debian or Arch, depending). I think the BadBIOS episode infected me with that security researcher's (apparent) paranoia.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
It isn't just the touch aspect, but also the "ruin your night vision" aspect. Most pedestrians don't carry lights around, or even wear light-colored clothing at night.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
I guess I'm primarily concerned with compromised firmware, not a special-made device. I'm not sure how realistic of a concern that is. Not that I'm a very interesting target, but I'd rather not have all my devices infected with malicious firmware. I figure that something like that would likely have state-level backing, and something that sophisticated could very easily get baked into brand new hardware at the fab without anybody knowing.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
SHA-256 will become the default hash.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Plus the shit is dirty to extract. On the one a hand I'd rather export our environmental disaster, on the other hand I think we really need to eat our dog food -- but I'm not confident that any amount of dog folding will lead to much change.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Actually...that sort of works.
turkishdelight
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
Seems shady, NoScript is giving me an XSS warning <_<.