• Crescent@fedinsfw.app
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    5 days ago

    I wrote in another comment too: A friend’s company scans every USB device. He got in trouble for plugging in his private USB stick once. Are you sure this is undetectable?

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      4 days ago

      A USB stick reports itself as a USB stick. A device you set up to report itself as what you want reports itself as what you want. The only thing a computer can talk about a device is what the device reports itself. That’s how computers and peripherals work. The computer provides power and the peripheral tells the computer about itself.

      So if you make a device that reports the exact same information as your other mice then yeah the computer thinks it’s the same mouse. But it’s not usable as a USB then. It can’t do other stuff.

      Yes your friend plugging in a USB will get them in trouble, cause they can exfiltrate data.