On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 2:46 PM Matt Graham wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 7:33 PM Daniel Stasinski > >> 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 I 💛✞ > >