[PLUG-TALK] Fake USB/SD drives

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 09:45:54 -0800
alan at clueserver.org dijo:

>> More to the point, I am curious how these fiends are doing this. Any
>> ideas?
>
>Hardware Hacking by Bunny Huang has a chapter on fake drives and how to
>spot them. The serial number data will show up as bogus. Worth getting
>the book just for that.

The exact title seems to be The Hardware Hacker; not expensive, but I
fear most would go over my head.

The interesting thing is what you say about the serial number.
Unfortunately, sellers don't generally give you that information - you
have to buy the thing and check out the serial number after it arrives.
And then if it's bogus you've got to go through the return/refund crap.

If you search eBay for 'micro sd card 1TB' you'll get a couple hundred
hits, and 90% of them are probably fake. Ditto for Amazon. Apparently
eBay and Amazon don't care about cleaning up their sellers, even though
the bad ones mostly have horrible feedback ratings. And I should add
that USB drives are almost as fraudulently marketed.

I don't know if there's anything I want to buy.