[ale] Unknown USB Sanitation with Raspian?

Leam Hall leamhall at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 17:08:24 EST 2023


The shred command, i think. Not just for you, but for them.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 3:56 PM Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Check the dmesg if mounts like storage device or something else as well.
>
> What was the name of the device that simulate keyboard? Rubberducky or
> something similar.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 16:27 Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> So, I came home from somewhere with a USB I thought was mine, but turns
>> out I was mistaken.
>>
>> Not picked up in a parking lot or a brothel.
>>
>> So, being ultra cautious, I stuffed it in a PI Jambox (Raspian)
>>
>> And deleted the files there.  Seemed like harmless stuff.
>>
>> And formatted it: sudo mkfs -t vfat -I /dev/sdb1
>>
>> So, being ultra cautious, anything else I'd want to do in Raspian/Linux
>> before using it, especially in a Windows device?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Neal
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