Psychson

Sounds like a good use case for a USB rubber ducky. The original version https://shop.hak5.org/collections/physical-access/products/u... The current cheapest off the shelf version (out of stock ATM but even cheaper clones exist) http://digistump.com/products/1 https://github.com/mame82/duck2spark Build your own with compatible USB flash drives https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson

Fingerprinting has been done: https://cise.ufl.edu/~butler/pubs/sadfe11.pdf And given you can easily reprogram thumb drives and such, it's easy to do evil stuff with them. You can plug a thumb drive with a reprogrammed firmware which will detect the OS based on IO patterns and then it can tell the OS it's also a keyboard and runs command for you. https://srlabs.de/bites/usb-peripherals-turn/ https://srlabs.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SRLabs-BadUSB-P... https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson https://www.computerworld.com/article/2690790/tools-for-crea... From the article: "During their Derbycon demonstration, which is available on YouTube, the two researchers replicated the emulated keyboard attack, but also showed how to create a hidden partition on thumb drives to defeat forensic tools and how to bypass the password for protected partit

Except that is not true, there's BadUSB (https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson), which updates the firmware of some common USB drives to make it do whatever your want (such as emulating a mouse/keyboard).

Yeah right like. What system cannot be compromised when you have physical access to it? You think if they ran openBSD or Windows or Apple Server, that they would not been hacked? All systems are exploitable with [BadUSB](https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson) for example. To secure this szenario. You'd have to make sure that the Sticks are not infected by any kind of malware. Or use a USB condom. No OS will ever be able to secure itself from such attacks.

Any plans to open it all up now (after badusb folks opened their code at https://github.com/adamcaudill/Psychson ) ? At this point mechanical drives are pretty much dinosaurs, it would be only useful to tinkerers.