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sneak on Oct 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Air Gaps

Flash drives are not dumb. I know that Travis Goodspeed has had some success in reflashing their microcontrollers to speak corrupt USB to attack USB stacks of host machines (which of course run in kernel mode).

lesterbuck on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

A fascinating talk by Travis Goodspeed on the mayhem possible by reprogramming the USB controller in a disk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8

Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch: Prototyping Active Disk Anti-Forensics

dublinben on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

I guess the only safe options are CDRs and one-way ethernet connections.

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