- 8 months
Interesting. They’re made by Hershey’s in the US, but Nestle everywhere else in the world. I did not know that until now.
- Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish8 months
You will never regret plugging random USB drives into your computer.
- 8 months
Into my computer? Absolutely not. Never EVER.
Into my work computer? Hell yeah, what’s life without a little chaos sprinkled in?
- 8 months
You say so, but my IT guy yelled at me for it. You know the whole “it takes three tries” thing? Well, when it still didn’t work, I pushed a little harder and now the internet doesn’t work any more.
- 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish8 months
Would it be possible to have something that looks like a thumbdrive but literally just shorts out the computer or would one of those things need to be bigger? 🤔
I’m not worried about viruses. I have nothing sensitive to steal stored on my machine or anything worth saving so I can always wipe the drive. But I would be wary if simply plugging a thing in could fry my PC.
- 8 months
I was overdue for a reminder about this site. In the same spirit “USB Killers” are indeed a thing. One I saw, a while back on Hackaday, was basically a bunch of small surface mount capacitors on a board stuffed in a generic thumb-drive type case.
- psud@aussie.zoneEnglish8 months
USB killers are a thing. The top three autocomplete for USB killer were …buy, …eBay, and …Amazon
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer
Paper on their effectiveness on different hardware: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/137908/1/WRAP-killing-your-device-via-USB-port-Angelopoulou-2020.pdf
These are moderately easy to make and cheap to buy
The first two returns from Google were sites selling USB killers