[e-privacy] Mettetele le vostre chiavette qua e là.....

George Orwell nobody at mixmaster.it
Sun Aug 27 16:29:34 CEST 2006


Da http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/usbdumper_1.html

BDumper  http://www.secuobs.com/news/07062006-sstic_usbdumper.shtml
http://www.secuobs.com/USBDumper.rar the software is  a cute  little  utility
that  silently copies  the contents of an  inserted USB drive onto the PC.  The
idea is that you install this  piece of software on  your computer, or on  a
public PC, and  then  you  collect  the  files  --  some  of  them  personal
and confidential  -- from  anyone  who  plugs their  USB  drive into  that
computer.

http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2006/08/23/wiping-unused-space-in-a-file-system
This blog  post talks  about a  version  that downloads  a disk  image,
allowing someone to recover deleted files as well.)

No big deal to  anyone who  worries  about  computer security  for  a living,
but probably  a rude  shock  to salespeople,  conference presenters,  file
sharers,  and many  others who  regularly plug  their USB  drives into strange
PCs.






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