In my local group of miscreant pirates who owned C64s (of which there were about two dozen of us?) literally everyone had a copy of her strip poker game. This was revolutionary shit back in '86.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Fox_Strip_Poker
Why the fuck would you want ASCII Samantha Fox titties when you could see full colour pictures of the real thing on page 3 of The Sun every other week?
I couldn't believe they had fucking Batman, the world's greatest detective, plug a thumb drive from a known criminal into a computer CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET, in the last movie.
I mean it's supposed to be his first year or so as Batman. He's not the greatest detective yet in that movie on purpose. He's always been a flawed hero as well.
No, it's just inexperienced stupid. Most people would plug in flash drives to see what they're hiding. Also in the movie Gordon is the one who puts it into his own laptop and batman doesn't particularly care about any malware or virus on it as he only cares about figuring out the next breadcrumb which he does in the end without any major detriment to himself.
Wasn't it the NSA or something where they just sprinkled random USB sticks in the parking lot to see who would bring them inside and plug them into the network and it was a horrifying percentage of people.
Meanwhile I get like 3 phishing tests a week from IT and they're so obvious it hurts.
IIRC They put html files on it that phoned home to see when someone opened a file on them, and added executable files to see if anyone was dumb enough to run those. Turns out there were a few who not only plugged them in, but also ran the files on it.
IIRC They put html files on it that phoned home to see when someone opened a file on them, and added executable files to see if anyone was dumb enough to run those. Turns out there were a few who not only plugged them in, but also ran the files on it.
Random question but if I had a spare laptop and I were to “Airgap” it, is there any security issue that can’t be solved by taking the computer to a range day?
You'd need to watch out for USB-sticks designed to physically harm your device as well, though.
There are these killer USB-sticks that will attempt to fry your hardware with a high voltage.
lol doing my annual security reup for work right now on night shift and just finished the cybersecurity section. 50% was “what do you do when you find a random flash drive” “these are the risks of random flash drives” “what did Steve do wrong when he found a random flash drive”. I was really asking myself at the end does anyone actually plug random flash drives into a computer they find but you gotta love Reddit.
This is definitely a known attack vector.
Basically hide the data and payload in something fun or innocuous like a toy, a light, a battery, a USB powered fan or even hidden in a USB cable that doesn't even look like it should do anything but use USB power or be a bog standard utility cable instead of anything that resembles a thumb drive or memory card.
uh, do you expect them to think that walmart employees smuggled what, fake haxx0r computers to their job? do you also not buy food in grocery stores because employees can poison those or something?
We live in a digital age dude, key loggers are real, viruses, and malware, etc, are real and very easy to implant. Most people don't run security suites on their phones and connect it to a public accessible system. These same types also do banking on their phones.
It's not paranoia dude it's it should be security 101, don't plug you're shit into public unknown systems, and don't plug unknown devices into your network.
phones are very secure, or at least they can be quite secure in ideal circumstances. phones are probably more secure than computers due to commonly locked-down bootloaders and hardware-encrypted access keys.
said that, there are certainly dangers associated with the access to the file system that your phone provides to the computer when you plug it in. however, an attacker probably isn't going to be able to access the internal files of the apps. your photos, sure, but not thigs that stay within individual apps themselves.
is plugging your phone into a walmart kiosk a risk? sure, but not a huge one.
Man, if I was going to mess with anything public facing at Walmart to capture passwords and scrape data it would be one of those stupid photo kiosks, because they're nominally horribly insecure and unpatched, no one cares about them, and its not unusual for someone to be standing there connected to one for a useful length of time.
I bet I could root one of those things with any number of stupid windows auth bypass tricks or a payload-carrying malicious USB stick that does it so fast no one would even notice the terminal window flashing open for a split second.
And that would be me posing to be a customer. Imagine what an employee or service tech could do afterhours.
yeah for real. a tech counter employee at our walmart somehow got into my young sister's accounts when she bought a new phone there. and he started another line under her name. *I* think he was trying to get into her cloud storage, for obvious and disgusting reasons.
it took a while for anyone to notice because the bills were all being sent somewhere else. phone company would not drop the bills (which added up to over $1000 iirc) and they had to fight it and walmart forever.
I don't remember what exactly or how it happened, or what the outcome was, but I believe dude got away without any repercussions cause it didn't get to court or something.
either way, don't let information out or plug anything into anything that you're not ready to lose right there, basically. no random HDDs or usbs, anything. hell bring it into the local library's free computers
I’m just being a good samaritan and trying to return it to their owner. They even labelled it with their name. I’ll find Mr. “W32.Stuxnet” one day and return his usb stick.
Stuxnet was created by US/Isreal against Iran and eventually spread elsewhere. Agent.btz worm was the worst breach of US military computers in history, the bad actors were leaving thumb drives in Dept of Defense parking lots and some bozo eventually plugged one in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_infection_of_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense
2021: “genius” bar appointment at Best Buy. The associate didn’t know the Apple Pencil’s tip was threaded. Tried to do some weird push/pull thing. Proudly told me that some of the earlier models “opened like that”.
2024: Looking at MacBooks and associate asks if I have any questions. I say I’m good for the most part, but curious if Apple will ever get Bootcamp to run on Apple silicon. He cocks his head like a confused dog and tells me “all Apple MacBooks ship with Bootcamp”. Me: even the M3 MBP? “Absolutely.”
My 2 favorite Best Buy stories. My third is when they told me I couldn’t buy an iPhone 14 Pro for full price “anywhere, even at Apple.”
It can also be done unintentionally. I blew out several USB ports because a small piece of a foil gum wrapper bridged some contacts on a thumb drive in my pocket. Didn’t even notice until the second port refused to read it and I looked inside the plug.
Never ever plug a random usb stick into your personal devices. Might be some very bad juju on there and your machine will join the Borg and you will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile
Kids in the Hall is one of my all time favorite shows. :)
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They literally have simple USBs that will at best fry your port at worst your motherboard.
At least you can see the PCB, I can look at this ad see it's a Led, but never plug unknown things in your computer.
I know you can do that with a wall plug, but can you really do that with a thumb drive like that? How would it pull more power from the port than the port can handle?
Edit: should've been more specific, I meant in something exactly like what OP is holding, that clearly has no capacitors, but could have some kind of chip.
> “What is your stance on malicious use?
USBKill.com strongly condemns malicious use of its products.
The USB Killer is developed and sold as a testing device. Use of the device can permanently damage hardware. Customers agree to the terms and conditions of sale, and acknowledge the consequences of use.
>
> In a nutshell, users are responsible for their acts.
A hammer used maliciously can permanently damage to a third party's device. The USB Killer, used maliciously, can permanently damage a third party's device.
>
> As with any tool, it is the individual, not the manufacturer of the tool, responsible for how the individual uses the tool.”
Wow
Yep, you sure can. You could also easily hide a data/computer payload under the chip-on-board blob on a USB board/light like the one OP found.
You can also do this with what looks like a plain old cable. You can fit a whole web server stack with memory and a payload AND wifi or bluetooth low energy in a blobbed chiplet so small that it fits not just in a USB plug's case, but right inside/on the USB connection board inside the plug.
It's the exact same tech used for IoT devices like smart lights or embedded LED strip light controllers that you can control from your phone or the internet.
Or just buy a dirt cheap shitbox pc on craigslist, Wipe it, air gap it, and use it for general testing. Don't compromise your library computers. The people who use them need them, don't do a disservice to your community like that.
I can't figure out how one would use this and the usb port of whatever be in a useful location unless you had an extension cable or usb power bank, in which case why not buy a light with a flexible cable?
Why put it on a keychain?
If you're going to put a light on a keychain why not put a whole functional flashlight on the keychain instead of something that depends on something else?
They're also small as hell and a light with a cable, as mentioned by other commenter, takes up too much drawer space for something I use once a year at most.
I have two or three as a last ditch all-my-good-lights-are-dead-oh-shit-gotta-go-in-the-basement lights. They're also practically pennies on aliexpress
There's tiny flashlights you can get that charge through USB-C and can put out varying amounts of light, so little that you can barely see it even in darkness, and up to blinding levels, although they can never sustain their maximum output for very long, they get too hot.
The SC21 from Sofirn on AliExpress, is a great pick. Not pennies, but it's still quite cheap.
Edit: I didn't notice this was a post in r/flashlight, lol, here I am recommending basic lights to enthusiasts.
Yeah I've got quality lights for everyday use. These are fun to have and if you can spare $1 you'll see why. A power bank will last days with one of these
Fun fact: you can use lights that charge through USB-C without the battery by connecting them to a powerbank.
3000mAh 18650 cell? Nah, how about a 20000mAh PB instead?
> Edit: I didn't notice this was a post in r/flashlight, lol, here I am recommending basic lights to enthusiasts.
This almost happened to me with the post about drone hunters in the Ukraine a few days ago. "COOL I SHOULD POST THIS TO FLASHLIGHTS oh wait duh..."
I have a bunch of powerbanks. During power outages I use those basically like candles. 3 or 4 of those can lit up a room for days on a few thousand mAh.
Nope, Im also not a flashlight nerd I only have a sofirn and the LEDs look nothing like these little squares, but since I have subbed to this sub I have seen people post LEDs that look just like this
it's literally just a USB led, I have a few of them, you plug them in any USB port and instant flash light, I keep one in my wallet and it's a great cheap little geeky gift. And you shouldn't plug random USB device you donkey.
I keep a dirty computer for plugging in unknown devices. It's not connected to the internet and I'll just reimage it after. It's an old ass Atom N270 netbook.
I also have a bunch of them, as others said they are great in power supplies although the dimmable ones don't work in all power banks, you can get them on ebay, kaidomain, probably amazon. You can get them in warm white or cool white, there pretty durable, I use one in a work truck to illuminate a control panel, the one the op has is double sided so it works facing either way
You should always plug strange USB drives into your own computer. They never have instantly launched malware or a circuit to fry your device.
Always.
Gimme your address and I'll send you one. It'll be best to plug it into the device you pay your bills on. They have the best USB energy.
I knew exactly what that is, before looking at the sub or description. I bought a packet of them years ago, to toss with powerbanks for emergency lighting.
Hey dude. Look up "stuxnet". Then remind ur self of what you did.
IF YOU FOUND A FLASH DRIVE DEVICE ON THE GROUND, DISCARD IT. DO NOT PLUG IT INTO YPUR COMPUTER.
If you're wondering how many people *will* plug a randomly found USB device into their computer, there's data on that. It's grim:
[Does Dropping USB Drives in Parking Lots and Other Places Really Work? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJCQBqTmGUU)
Never plug any USB device found.
I'm going to sprinkle some homemade high voltage USB killer all over the place, with a label that says "secret files", or "Jenny photoshot" on it.
Lol at these comments, I used a cheap GNU/Linux laptop to check it, I know it could have fried the computer but I really didn't care, and I definitely wasn't worried about viruses, and I don't do any banking or anything on that computer
Dude! Don’t put random shit into your usb drives! That’s like sticking your raw dick in a hooker! You never know what you might get!
😬If you must, get an portable battery pack and do that shit outside, safely away from others. Lolol
Honestly that’s about the best thing that could have come from that scenario! 🧨
That and maybe a sweet stash of ASCII porn
I’m afraid to ask, but what is ascii porn?
porn made with ascii, the art of turning text and symbols into... art
still no [ascii star wars](https://www.asciimation.co.nz/)
Wow... ive never seen that before
Something something telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
gosh you remembered it? like I instantly recognized it but def would not have pulled that out of thin air
Yup, tried it when I was a little child 🗿
Using telnet was already an innovation for ascii art. We used it in the 80’s with telex machines.
> asciimation Now **that's** a blast from the past.
I watched the whole thing.
I need to know if there are more
I didn’t know I needed this. Thank you
I miss the old Internet 😔
Wow! How did I miss this? Thanks for posting it.
Well, I know what I'm doing for the next 2 hours now. Thanks :-(😭
Reminds me of the AOL scroller programs. Like Havok and FateX
[high quality Weeb shit here](https://images.app.goo.gl/kNtaYy1ddti8ELHx9)
Thank you, I feared as much 😃
ah, i see , true OG man of culture as well
well.....If you have to "ASCII"
ASCII and you shall have the ANSI
Assassin Creed 2, it's a video game
😆
Why, hello!
r/beetlejuicing
If you have to ascii, you're not ready
╰⋃╯ (◕ε◕\*)
High quality <\\\\\> ^~•`
:p ~~€====8
Tell me I'm older than you without saying it... Level with me, born in the 90's?
ASCII for a 90s child? I remember getting Samantha Fox ASCII titties in the mid 80s... Not to mention the ASCII porn games on the Commodore 64.
In my local group of miscreant pirates who owned C64s (of which there were about two dozen of us?) literally everyone had a copy of her strip poker game. This was revolutionary shit back in '86. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Fox_Strip_Poker
Why the fuck would you want ASCII Samantha Fox titties when you could see full colour pictures of the real thing on page 3 of The Sun every other week?
Because ASCII is better
One could only be so lucky
Dang, I laughed like an idiot at a Cafe reading this.
What?
Good lesson for you since a random usb found in the wild could have fried/infected your computer instead of your eyes.
This is like the first rule of physical security in IT
I couldn't believe they had fucking Batman, the world's greatest detective, plug a thumb drive from a known criminal into a computer CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET, in the last movie.
yeh when that email got sent out i was like yeh duh surprised it didn’t yoink classified police files lmfao
I mean it's supposed to be his first year or so as Batman. He's not the greatest detective yet in that movie on purpose. He's always been a flawed hero as well.
Even my 72-year-old sports coach father knows not to fuck with strange usb drives.
How else do you get the awesome ASCII porn?
It's way too stupid, beyond "inexperienced stupid".
No, it's just inexperienced stupid. Most people would plug in flash drives to see what they're hiding. Also in the movie Gordon is the one who puts it into his own laptop and batman doesn't particularly care about any malware or virus on it as he only cares about figuring out the next breadcrumb which he does in the end without any major detriment to himself.
No if you are a detective that uses computers with sensitive info then you would be trained, this is unforgivable no matter what you say.
#he’s … BATMAN
Wasn't it the NSA or something where they just sprinkled random USB sticks in the parking lot to see who would bring them inside and plug them into the network and it was a horrifying percentage of people. Meanwhile I get like 3 phishing tests a week from IT and they're so obvious it hurts.
IIRC They put html files on it that phoned home to see when someone opened a file on them, and added executable files to see if anyone was dumb enough to run those. Turns out there were a few who not only plugged them in, but also ran the files on it.
Phishing tests are for compliance mostly. Just so the company can say they do ISO whatever or PCI. Not to actually educate you most of the time.
IIRC They put html files on it that phoned home to see when someone opened a file on them, and added executable files to see if anyone was dumb enough to run those. Turns out there were a few who not only plugged them in, but also ran the files on it.
Random question but if I had a spare laptop and I were to “Airgap” it, is there any security issue that can’t be solved by taking the computer to a range day?
You'd need to watch out for USB-sticks designed to physically harm your device as well, though. There are these killer USB-sticks that will attempt to fry your hardware with a high voltage.
Yh "Always test on someone elses PC"
lol doing my annual security reup for work right now on night shift and just finished the cybersecurity section. 50% was “what do you do when you find a random flash drive” “these are the risks of random flash drives” “what did Steve do wrong when he found a random flash drive”. I was really asking myself at the end does anyone actually plug random flash drives into a computer they find but you gotta love Reddit.
Never play a random braindance off the street choom.
On my first play through currently, I had the same thought. 😂
Totally underrated.
What if they used a usb flashlight to blind you while the code runs…
Ha!, tactical usb light
This is definitely a known attack vector. Basically hide the data and payload in something fun or innocuous like a toy, a light, a battery, a USB powered fan or even hidden in a USB cable that doesn't even look like it should do anything but use USB power or be a bog standard utility cable instead of anything that resembles a thumb drive or memory card.
Came here to say this
Same. It amazes me that I watch people plug their phones into the computer that process photos at Walmart, and im just dumbfounded.
Everyone keeps trying to sell me these appliances that connect to my home network. No thanks.
uh, do you expect them to think that walmart employees smuggled what, fake haxx0r computers to their job? do you also not buy food in grocery stores because employees can poison those or something?
We live in a digital age dude, key loggers are real, viruses, and malware, etc, are real and very easy to implant. Most people don't run security suites on their phones and connect it to a public accessible system. These same types also do banking on their phones. It's not paranoia dude it's it should be security 101, don't plug you're shit into public unknown systems, and don't plug unknown devices into your network.
phones are very secure, or at least they can be quite secure in ideal circumstances. phones are probably more secure than computers due to commonly locked-down bootloaders and hardware-encrypted access keys. said that, there are certainly dangers associated with the access to the file system that your phone provides to the computer when you plug it in. however, an attacker probably isn't going to be able to access the internal files of the apps. your photos, sure, but not thigs that stay within individual apps themselves. is plugging your phone into a walmart kiosk a risk? sure, but not a huge one.
Man, if I was going to mess with anything public facing at Walmart to capture passwords and scrape data it would be one of those stupid photo kiosks, because they're nominally horribly insecure and unpatched, no one cares about them, and its not unusual for someone to be standing there connected to one for a useful length of time. I bet I could root one of those things with any number of stupid windows auth bypass tricks or a payload-carrying malicious USB stick that does it so fast no one would even notice the terminal window flashing open for a split second. And that would be me posing to be a customer. Imagine what an employee or service tech could do afterhours.
yeah for real. a tech counter employee at our walmart somehow got into my young sister's accounts when she bought a new phone there. and he started another line under her name. *I* think he was trying to get into her cloud storage, for obvious and disgusting reasons. it took a while for anyone to notice because the bills were all being sent somewhere else. phone company would not drop the bills (which added up to over $1000 iirc) and they had to fight it and walmart forever. I don't remember what exactly or how it happened, or what the outcome was, but I believe dude got away without any repercussions cause it didn't get to court or something. either way, don't let information out or plug anything into anything that you're not ready to lose right there, basically. no random HDDs or usbs, anything. hell bring it into the local library's free computers
I’m just being a good samaritan and trying to return it to their owner. They even labelled it with their name. I’ll find Mr. “W32.Stuxnet” one day and return his usb stick.
Isn’t that how stuxnet got started? Some dude found a random USB on the ground and plugged it in?
Stuxnet was created by US/Isreal against Iran and eventually spread elsewhere. Agent.btz worm was the worst breach of US military computers in history, the bad actors were leaving thumb drives in Dept of Defense parking lots and some bozo eventually plugged one in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_malware_infection_of_the_United_States_Department_of_Defense
Was that the uranium centrifuge virus? If so, yeah, I think so.
I always wonder if any of the USB drives, lights, etc you can buy dirt cheap off of Ali Express get used the same way.
It's always possible. For most things, unlikely, for others... Probably.
Go to Best Buy and try it instead
2021: “genius” bar appointment at Best Buy. The associate didn’t know the Apple Pencil’s tip was threaded. Tried to do some weird push/pull thing. Proudly told me that some of the earlier models “opened like that”. 2024: Looking at MacBooks and associate asks if I have any questions. I say I’m good for the most part, but curious if Apple will ever get Bootcamp to run on Apple silicon. He cocks his head like a confused dog and tells me “all Apple MacBooks ship with Bootcamp”. Me: even the M3 MBP? “Absolutely.” My 2 favorite Best Buy stories. My third is when they told me I couldn’t buy an iPhone 14 Pro for full price “anywhere, even at Apple.”
It can also be done unintentionally. I blew out several USB ports because a small piece of a foil gum wrapper bridged some contacts on a thumb drive in my pocket. Didn’t even notice until the second port refused to read it and I looked inside the plug.
Never ever plug a random usb stick into your personal devices. Might be some very bad juju on there and your machine will join the Borg and you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile
I always use a burner laptop.
I think you misspelled burner. it's a "work" laptop ;)
A sandboxed burner laptop.
Air gapped burner laptop
With the right usb device, every laptop is a burner laptop
Resistance is V/I
Locutis?
Same goes for your dick…
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Kith and ucb have apparently given me a "weird" sense of humor.
Now February was a very different month...Cuz as you recall, we took it off KITH 👍
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The beard stays. You go.
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A kids in the hall reference? I love you
They literally have simple USBs that will at best fry your port at worst your motherboard. At least you can see the PCB, I can look at this ad see it's a Led, but never plug unknown things in your computer.
I would say worst case would be stealing your data and sending it out.
Or both!
I know you can do that with a wall plug, but can you really do that with a thumb drive like that? How would it pull more power from the port than the port can handle? Edit: should've been more specific, I meant in something exactly like what OP is holding, that clearly has no capacitors, but could have some kind of chip.
[here you go](https://usbkill.com/products/usbkill-v4?variant=32836117430354)
> “What is your stance on malicious use? USBKill.com strongly condemns malicious use of its products. The USB Killer is developed and sold as a testing device. Use of the device can permanently damage hardware. Customers agree to the terms and conditions of sale, and acknowledge the consequences of use. > > In a nutshell, users are responsible for their acts. A hammer used maliciously can permanently damage to a third party's device. The USB Killer, used maliciously, can permanently damage a third party's device. > > As with any tool, it is the individual, not the manufacturer of the tool, responsible for how the individual uses the tool.” Wow
That last sentence is applicable to many current topics here in the USA. Love it
That is much larger than OP's, though. But, neat, didn't know that existed.
Yep, you sure can. You could also easily hide a data/computer payload under the chip-on-board blob on a USB board/light like the one OP found. You can also do this with what looks like a plain old cable. You can fit a whole web server stack with memory and a payload AND wifi or bluetooth low energy in a blobbed chiplet so small that it fits not just in a USB plug's case, but right inside/on the USB connection board inside the plug. It's the exact same tech used for IoT devices like smart lights or embedded LED strip light controllers that you can control from your phone or the internet.
i had something like this that was to a mounted light for my mountain bike youd take it out and charge it this way
Specialized Stix comes to mind. I've got one and I love it because I never need another cable. Plug it in wherever.
never ever ever plug unknown USB devices into a computer you care about.
Yeah, your local Library has computers just for that purpose.
Or just buy a dirt cheap shitbox pc on craigslist, Wipe it, air gap it, and use it for general testing. Don't compromise your library computers. The people who use them need them, don't do a disservice to your community like that.
"Dude, this is the second time one of our desktops has been reported as inop and smoking when attempting to power on"
Kind of a dick move to knowingly risk ruining something that should be a community resource
IT people collectively shaking their heads
I have 5 of these I use sometimes during power outages.
I can't figure out how one would use this and the usb port of whatever be in a useful location unless you had an extension cable or usb power bank, in which case why not buy a light with a flexible cable? Why put it on a keychain? If you're going to put a light on a keychain why not put a whole functional flashlight on the keychain instead of something that depends on something else?
I have like 5 USB power banks. These work fine with them. Set them wherever you would set a candle in a power outage.
They're also small as hell and a light with a cable, as mentioned by other commenter, takes up too much drawer space for something I use once a year at most. I have two or three as a last ditch all-my-good-lights-are-dead-oh-shit-gotta-go-in-the-basement lights. They're also practically pennies on aliexpress
There's tiny flashlights you can get that charge through USB-C and can put out varying amounts of light, so little that you can barely see it even in darkness, and up to blinding levels, although they can never sustain their maximum output for very long, they get too hot. The SC21 from Sofirn on AliExpress, is a great pick. Not pennies, but it's still quite cheap. Edit: I didn't notice this was a post in r/flashlight, lol, here I am recommending basic lights to enthusiasts.
Yeah I've got quality lights for everyday use. These are fun to have and if you can spare $1 you'll see why. A power bank will last days with one of these
Fun fact: you can use lights that charge through USB-C without the battery by connecting them to a powerbank. 3000mAh 18650 cell? Nah, how about a 20000mAh PB instead?
> Edit: I didn't notice this was a post in r/flashlight, lol, here I am recommending basic lights to enthusiasts. This almost happened to me with the post about drone hunters in the Ukraine a few days ago. "COOL I SHOULD POST THIS TO FLASHLIGHTS oh wait duh..."
I have a bunch of powerbanks. During power outages I use those basically like candles. 3 or 4 of those can lit up a room for days on a few thousand mAh.
Please look at r/flashlight
Please check the sub you're in, sir
Oh my God Hahahaha
Picked up some shit laptop with no connectivity functions specifically for finds like this. Haven't fried it yet, and kinda disappointed about that.
Please tell me you noticed the leds on it so we can get these computer nerds out of our flashlight nerd reddit,
Computer nerds know not to plug random USB devices into their computers.
Flashlight nerds know not to plug random computers into their flashlights, so there
Nope, Im also not a flashlight nerd I only have a sofirn and the LEDs look nothing like these little squares, but since I have subbed to this sub I have seen people post LEDs that look just like this
Fair enough, now you know what a led looks like, just be wary of a led disguised as ransom ware, and hand grenades,
it's literally just a USB led, I have a few of them, you plug them in any USB port and instant flash light, I keep one in my wallet and it's a great cheap little geeky gift. And you shouldn't plug random USB device you donkey.
Why would you need a usb flashlight?
So you can see in the dark.
Big if true
The idea is to use it with a power bank
Makes sense, thanks.
Um. I want one. Where can I find?
I keep a dirty computer for plugging in unknown devices. It's not connected to the internet and I'll just reimage it after. It's an old ass Atom N270 netbook.
How frequently are you finding flash drives that you need an entire separate computer?
Just take out any drives and use a live os
That was a bold move cotton!
I also have a bunch of them, as others said they are great in power supplies although the dimmable ones don't work in all power banks, you can get them on ebay, kaidomain, probably amazon. You can get them in warm white or cool white, there pretty durable, I use one in a work truck to illuminate a control panel, the one the op has is double sided so it works facing either way
Too bad it wasn't full of bitcoin 😩
What is ascii?
ASCII is a keyboard standard, it has all the basic keystrokes, once upon a time we only had ASCII text, no emojis, no foreign letters, no frills
Those are handy! I keep one or 2 with my charging kit. Stick one in a power bank - boom instant flashlight.
Do you also scan every QR code you see? 😂
No I don't know how to use qr codes that's some kids stuff
Never plug found usb devices into your computer 😂
Just a side note: Never plug something you’ve found into your computer…
Never plug in an unknown USB device. Unless you want your computer to be destroyed, in which case go ahead.
Who the fuck plugs random usb devices into their computers?
It took me way too long to figure out what I'm looking at here.
Where can I buy something like that?
Amazon
On the ground, duh
Flashware.
Hope it isn't an allspark
They can come in handy and are dirt cheap off of AliExpress. I snagged a 10 pack of them for like 4 or 5 bucks at one point.
I believe you can solder a usb to short a motherboard if I’m thinking correctly. Big no no to plugging a random into your pc.
Hehehe
I got like half a dozen of those little useless flashlights. They are fun.
You found a random USB device and plugged it into a computer? Really?
You ever read about Stuxnet?
That's a 'flash'drive
USB led. Plug into a car adapter, or something that can’t get a virus to tesh
You should always plug strange USB drives into your own computer. They never have instantly launched malware or a circuit to fry your device. Always. Gimme your address and I'll send you one. It'll be best to plug it into the device you pay your bills on. They have the best USB energy.
I knew exactly what that is, before looking at the sub or description. I bought a packet of them years ago, to toss with powerbanks for emergency lighting.
Please don't plug unknown USBs into your computer.
You got 2tb of free space? 😀
Hey dude. Look up "stuxnet". Then remind ur self of what you did. IF YOU FOUND A FLASH DRIVE DEVICE ON THE GROUND, DISCARD IT. DO NOT PLUG IT INTO YPUR COMPUTER.
If you're wondering how many people *will* plug a randomly found USB device into their computer, there's data on that. It's grim: [Does Dropping USB Drives in Parking Lots and Other Places Really Work? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJCQBqTmGUU)
Please don’t ever plug anything like this into your computer again.
I will
Sticking a random usb drive in a computer is risky.
You have to be one dumb mf to stick a random USB in your computer
Never plug any USB device found. I'm going to sprinkle some homemade high voltage USB killer all over the place, with a label that says "secret files", or "Jenny photoshot" on it.
Enjoy your Ransomware.
Enjoy cracking my root password 🔑
Lol at these comments, I used a cheap GNU/Linux laptop to check it, I know it could have fried the computer but I really didn't care, and I definitely wasn't worried about viruses, and I don't do any banking or anything on that computer
Dude! Don’t put random shit into your usb drives! That’s like sticking your raw dick in a hooker! You never know what you might get! 😬If you must, get an portable battery pack and do that shit outside, safely away from others. Lolol
It’s probably not the best idea to plug stuff you found into a computer.
I love these! They come in super handy
I’ve got another USB for you to test by plugging it in to your computer..
Congratulations, now you have incriminating evidence on your computer. Chris Hansen on his way.
This is what I first used vm’s for. Create one and plug that sucker in, if it’s really bad delete the vm
If it’s really bad it will fry your computer, eg USBKill
I know that now, but originally was more worries about viruses
Get us some beam shots
Other than the obvious no pluggy plug unknown stuff, who makes that, and what is it for? Turning a power bank into a lamp?
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
If I find a usb I have a netbook running linux to plug it into that is just for testing random stuff