[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

[Ben Koenig]

Did you already return the drives? It would be interesting to examine them
at a lower level. There were a bunch of Intel ME exploits in 2017, some of
which using "specially prepared" USB sticks as attack vectors.

On the one hand this is probably a quick cash grab by some random company.
But then again, I wonder if these flash drives are an attempt to modify low
level firmware on exploitable Intel systems... Even if the user finds out
that the drive is a fake, the real goal was to change your system firmware.

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 11:01 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> On 07/21/2018 09:22 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
> Oh, the seller definitely knew they were fakes, else why did the seller
>> try to fool eBay by changing the listing header information from 256GB
>> to 32GB after the sale? I want to report this to eBay as a scam, but I
>> haven't found the button for that yet.
>>
>
> https://resolutioncenter.ebay.com/
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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