If you’re cold they’re cold [Image of USB flash drive laying in grass] Put them in the computer at your work
Or I could put them in this convenient little USB warmer
(for those unaware this is a USB duplicator and Eraser, it duplicates or erases the contents of a USB drive onto the others at the push of a button).
I kinda wanna try buying a bunch of virus usb sticks and putting them into important pcs at work. Or leave them lying around the office.
A USB flash drive with viruses on will probably be pretty ineffective; someone would need to run the virus manually without AV picking it up which is pretty unheard of. Plus, any organisation worth it’s salt will have a policy that automatically blocks drives that aren’t encrypted with a company-issued encryption key.
The real risk is that a device like this can emulate any USB device, including disks, keyboards, monitors, serial devices, etc. So you plug in the key and in a split second it opens a terminal and types a dozen especially tasty commands…
Actually, you can’t put them in the computer where I work. Safety protocols, you can’t use any devices except that but you’re provided for you by the company
“Can’t” or “don’t know how”?
No you can’t, every device has to be approved by the company, and they need to know exactly what you’re using this device for. It’s so strict that literally I can’t even plug my phone into a computer if I forget to bring my wall plug, in order to charge it I mean.
So what happens to the device if your phone does get plugged in? Firewall at the input?
