[Noisebridge-discuss] usb 'dead drops' at noisebridge?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 11/1/10 3:55 PM, Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> Me personally, I like living on the edge.  I open every attachment
> without fail and I also click every link I am ever given and fill all
> forms out.  Why not?  Whats life without a little excitement?????

Disabling DMA in device drivers that touch external storage or things
that purport to be external storage is a healthy and worthwhile option
of course it's easier to do on linux than say windows. between that and
conecting the usb perhipheral to a vm with a read only disk (think
knoppix)rather than to your actual bare metal machine you can probably
hold most nastiness found on random usb sticks at arms length.

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Micah Lee <twopointfour at riseup.net
> <mailto:twopointfour at riseup.net>> wrote:
> 
>     In Windows you can disable autoplay. I think the process is slightly
>     different for Windows XP as it is for Vista/7, and I think it involves
>     changing a registry value.
> 
>     You should definitely disable it if you're going to be plugging in
>     unknown USB drives to your computer. It's like a USB condom.
> 
>     There's plenty to google, but this might get you started.
>     http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/windows7/windows7_autoplay.htm
> 
>     On 10/30/2010 09:19 PM, Mitch Altman wrote:
>     > Too cool an idea!
>     >
>     > Too bad that there's a high risk of trojans by
>     > connecting a Windows computer to one (autorun.inf files can run an EXE
>     > file upon plugging a USB drive in).
>     >
>     > Mitch.
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