DON'T buy this USB Stick.
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Channel: Mrwhosetheboss
Views: 5,910,563
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Keywords: 5g, bioshield, tech, scam, escobar, wallpaper crashes phones, wallpaper crash phones, mkbhd
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Length: 8min 29sec (509 seconds)
Published: Sat Jun 13 2020
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I just love the fact someone took advantage of the Covidiots who believes the 5G conspiracy
I'll stick to my shungite rocks tyvm
If someone is stupid enough to fall for this, they probably deserve it. Still, there should be laws in place to protect these dumbasses.
Just to warn people, in general buying USB devices from shady companies and just plugging them into your laptop is a terrible idea. It's a pretty standard attack vector for malware, as USB device, including usb sticks, have computers on board, and those computers can be reprogrammed to hack your computer.
EDIT
I'm not talking about USB sticks with autorun.inf files on them, or specialist usb devices such as rubber ducky, I'm referring to your off the shelf usb mass storage device.
At a hardware level, a USBA connector has 4 pins: 5V, Ground, and two data pins. There is a communication protocol which is too complex for simple hardware, and thus ALL usb devices have at least a microcontroller on board to perform identification, feature negotiation, and processing of commands.
This microcontroller has a small amount of ROM and RAM which contains the compiled code which it runs. To avoid unnecessary hardware, the same usb connector is used to modify the code running on board. That way, if you find a bug in your implementation of some USB feature, instead of having to change your hardware design, change your manufacturing process, etc, you simply reflash all the devices that have yet to leave the factory. Simple and cheap.
Now, because most companies cut corners on security, because spending time and effort writing secure code and testing it costs money, USB devices are released into the field with vulnerabilities.
These vulnerabilities can be exploited to reprogram the usb flash storage device to do whatever you like. It's got a general purpose microcontroller on board. It can do ANYTHING. Albeit slowly, because the microcontrollers are typically fairly slow. But they're getting faster, as we demand faster data access.
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I'm sorry, but that's not true. All USB sticks have microcontrollers on board, which run of reprogrammable firmware. That firmware can usually be modified via software, you can reprogram the microcontroller to do whatever you like, such as act as a different USB device, or multiple USB devices, such as both a keyboard and mass storage device, and when there's a timeout is memory accesses (so the user has probably left the computer), send a flurry of keyboard commands which open up a terminal, writes commands, deletes files, and literally do anything that you can do with a keyboard and mouse.
The most quality video award according to me, it should go to you. Nice video
I enjoyed the video and it did go a bit further, but this does seem it's just changed the medium of a report from The Register from a week or so ago and not mentioned it as a source.
I have to say that I am impressed with the audacity of the scam. The scale of the false claims being made and ridiculous quasi-scientific terms used...well if hutzpah could be converted into electricity, we could move away from fossil fuels!
For more crazy look at one of the creators websites (teslastyle101) it seems they genually believe they stuff there saying.
On there he makes claims -
Cell phones were designed to cause cancer
Cars can be self powered from love and goodness
That the "problem of nuclear waste is solved FOREVER (100% efficiency)" based on a invention of his but he doesnt got into any detail at all
And that hes a spiritual physicist(?)
One of the most elaborate scams in existance?
What are you talking about? Likely took 5 minutes to sort out with a chinese supplier, and then another few hours on building the website for it.
It seems youtubers are the people who actually go scammed. I bet they're the only ones buying these things..