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hprotagonist on April 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: FBI is warning people against using public phone-c...

badUSB is what, nearly 20 years old now?

i distinctly remember making usb condoms a long time ago, anyway, and have never trusted public usb slots anyway.

ineedtocall on April 12, 2023 [–]

I had to look that age up. You're right, ~19 years ago[1] badUSB made its debut.

Another fun toy is the USB Gadget Kernel module. I've been running yolo + mouse/keyboard emulation on a raspberry pi to make horrible aim bots.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadUSB

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