On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:46 PM Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:

>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:33 PM Daniel Stasinski
>> <daniel@genericinbox.com> wrote:
>>> Today I got a promotional information USB stick from a retailer
On 2018-08-11 04:13, Aaron Jones wrote:
> You should throw it away. Unsolicited or free usb sticks are not safe.

Er. I know salespeople aren't usually technically literate, but it is
highly unlikely they're knowingly distributing malware, spyware, or
electrical attack devices to potential customers. Salespeople who
actively hurt customers usually make very few sales and auto-Darwinate.

It came from my employer and contained pdf files detailing employee services. Pretty benign.

dmesg reports:

[30072.513509] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[30072.646992] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=2016, idProduct=0917, bcdDevice= 0.00
[30072.646996] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[30072.646998] usb 3-1: Product: usb55
[30072.647000] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: udisk
[30072.647002] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 11100042926
[30072.702584] usb-storage 3-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[30072.703087] scsi host4: usb-storage 3-1:1.0
[30072.703194] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[30072.705546] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[30073.837490] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access usb55 udisk 1.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[30073.838150] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[30073.838254] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 8032 512-byte logical blocks: (4.11 MB/3.92 MiB)
[30073.838452] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[30073.838456] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
[30073.841219] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[30073.841226] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[30073.854419] sdb:
[30073.855432] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Daniel P. Stasinski
daniel@GenericInbox.com

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