Here's some HIV!

That's a perfect analogy!

I work in IT and this analogous comparison fully checks out.

lolol this comment rules

This is literally the best comparison I've seen for this

This.

"Nah bro u don't get it my PC doesn't use electricity I'm literally immune your rig sucks"

this is the truth

@@gigaatom bro I use a quantum computer from 2040 that runs windows Xp 2. ur rig sucks.

Bro it's just gonna download some more ram for you don't worry

Liar

@@danielthecake8617 if you say so. You don't have to believe me, the guy was going to uni for cyber security, but was also a grey hat hacker who did it for fun

That wasn't really "teaching people not to trust drives from strangers", that's just being annoying IMO. You weren't really strangers, you were classmates. You were asking legitimate question in a context where you should be able to assume that people would be trustworthy enough to give reasonable answer. All that he's teaching is that he is not to be trusted.

Yep. Lesson learned. Siri take a note: "This guy is a dick, stay away from him" Problem solved. Practical jokes are almost always a strong indicator that the "joker" is a dick and best avoided.

Thats a good lad. Not even a dick for putting a virus on your computer

no dont be ridiculous. if people were the danger, then we would get attacked all the time. with mails, and phone calls. heck, you could throw usb drives with malware on the parking lot. there would be a word for that. like people hacking or people engineering, since its not exactly hacking, although, come to think of it maybe its more a social thing then just "people". but ive never heard of people hacking, so, its not happening. also, if it was that easy, stuff would get hacked all the time. which it doesnt. not like a company like, say, adobe, would lose all their customer data, and no one would know... /s

They are the reason why our IT service disabled USB drives usage from our computers. Tbh, if someone were to plug a fake USB stick, it could still do damage. But people are less likely to do it because there is no reason to do it.

@@rix1602 Why is there no reason to do it?

@@Tralin because it wouldn't do anything.

@@rix1602 USB Rubber Ducky is a fast way to totally compromise a computer and gain a persistent foothold in a corporate network...

Gibbs' Rule #40: If it seems like someone’s out to get you, they are.

@@Black-Swan-007 if you run a company, someone is out to get you

@@kosmikme if you live anywhere other than a third world country someone is out to get you.

Exponential paranoia

Conspiracy Theory, great movie.

It's only a Rick Roll if it's a surprise. If you're forewarned, then it's just watching a music video.

I was hoping to see him load the USB in real time so I can hear his reaction but no such luck

i watched the video hoping for a rick roll, love the song

just as with trolling, which is what rickrolling is, if you are aware that a rick is involved, its not rickrolling.

We know the game and we’re gonna play it

That says a LOT about teachers… but is not surprising.

@@jayhache5609 Lol, so many of them just do it for the paycheck and the few who actually try to go above and beyond to help kids just open themselves up to a bunch of liability, especially male teachers. On the other hand I remember one time one of our female teachers and a student got into the most awkward fight in the middle of class that was obviously over something that they had said or done in private because there was no logical reason for them to be upset with each other. She eventually pulls him out of class so they can talk in the hallway and in the eerie classroom silence that followed without a word everybody was thinking the same thing, "Are those two secretly having sex?"

20-30 years later and nothing has changed. EMail is still the #1 entry for malware.

My mom's a teacher, and she's pretty tech savvy. Of course it helps my dad is an expert. Something my younger brother inherited.

I had a friend that got that while I was sitting in his office. He said "Oops, that's a virus". How do you know? He said "It says I love you, it's from Dave in personell. He doesn't love me he hates me, actually." It got deleted.

ransomware

@@MrAkurvaeletbe - it's probably just a very good looking piece of ransomware.

Reminds me of that guy that created a virus that would force you to complete some crazy difficult tohou bullet hell video game in order to get your files back. He made the thing as a joke and then managed to accidentally infect his own computer, and he wasn't good enough to beat the game.

🤣😂🤣🤣😂🎶

DANG IT

And Never Let you Down

And never gonna make you cry

@@eyebags2860 And never say goodbye

Yes, the computer security is on such a high level that all brute attacks are pretty much obsolete. Bypassing security is next to impossible. Still, there are even IT professionals who think "hey, this is a good, 20 characters long random password, I type it in multiple times everyday so I remember it, let's use this on this shady porn site as my password. Oh, and because my wife can check my emails on our home computer, I will use my work email"... Is it still phishing when somebody gives you all details on his free will?

@@simonspacek3670 knee-jerk response was, "People (idiots) still use a single password and permutation?" But, recalled immediately people do. (Myself, I've a range if passwords and a horrifying number permutation for EACH ONE. lmao.)

Kevin Mitnick would agree!

@@simonspacek3670 that’s not exactly true. Brute Force attacks are completely viable against something that doesn’t limit login attempts and even if they do, depending on the configuration of a website a rainbow table can be used to crack passwords. Hacking has always been depended on what exactly you are attacking and then finding the vulnerabilities. Malware on a usb can infect someone’s system if it exploits a vulnerability in their operating system, (of which there are many in every version of every OS). The USB stick is just nice bait.

@@pwegulian Brute force on 22 characters? Estimate time for this with unlimited tries is 2.9*e29 (or infinity and a half or 29 and hell lot of zeroes), just because it takes that long to put in the characters. And yes, I know, my example started with "I", so we will get there in about a third of that, so it is "only" about 10 and a 28 zeroes. It looks like this: 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years. Even if the technology moves forward a lot and you will be able to put in the passwords million times faster, I still have a lot of zeroes to be safe. Another million times faster? Still 19 zeroes. But I take that there will be a major breakthrough and your computer will be billion times faster in both cases. I still have 13 zeroes. Even bigger breakthrough, trillion times faster input, twice. And I still have 7 zeroes. 100 000 000 years. I don't worry about brute force, I worry about placing strategic people in service desks, that is the easiest way in. One guy in the company to know where to strike, one guy at service desk to know how to strike.

I found it really funny: commenters saying “aaah, don’t be a wuss, is your Pc so badly set up?” Thinking the only barrier necessary is disabling auto start, only to get lectured about things they just didn’t know, like usb disguising as trusted peripherals (i didn’t know that either). Dunning Kruger Karma!

I wish it was. It isn't. "Hey, I found this shiny USB drive and it says 5TB on it! That's giant! Fuck this, I am going to keep it. I just stick it into my computer and erase.... Holy F...!!!" With a laser engraver and cheap thumb drives with anodized aluminum bodies a dime a dozen, simply adjust the storage capacity to any ridiculous amount appropriate for the time.

And by doing so, he has let LPL down and branched the timeline.

@@crimsonhalo13 d-mail toime yet again

He's never going to give him up, either. Expect many more drives in the coming weeks and months.

haha, I was thinking this same thing. Poor Rick is a fan, sent a lock in for free, and got his music dissed in return. :/

@@crimsonhalo13 great now the TVA have to deal with a variant Rick

This is my favorite kind of person!

That's what Will Graham said.

ikr, but a good lesson on malicious drives

Never give your energy to haters, it’s not about the thing it’s about your reaction that they crave.

420 likes nice

Oooooooo! That song is in my head. Your virus comment got me

😄😄😄

HOW DARE YOU

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go sit in time out

Consolation. Consultation is when you get advice from a professional

@@georgiykireev9678 lol I didn't even catch that (probably as it's the last word).. tbh I did what I normally do and let autocorrect correct my first spelling attempt but didn't notice it being the wrong word all together

I'm curious to what would happen if you plugged it into a phone charger and then the wall. Probably not good things but I'd like to watch the fireworks.

@@nesyboi9421 worse case scenario is it causes the wall charger to catch fire... At the high school I work with, a students wall charger was plugged in next to a couch and caught fire (luckily they were next to kitchen with fire extinguisher and it was put out quickly)... As far as going back into the electrical outlet, it wouldn't do anything to mains I'd imagine... Worse case there is just tripping a breaker but I'd imagine the internal wiring of a house could handle the charge.

@@nesyboi9421 dont phone charger has data lines tied to ground? so nothing?

+YuBeace....What's worst is you taking the time to ponder those two scenario's instead of just dismissing them both by shining them ON!!

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but You're too shy to say it Inside, we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

@@doubtful_seer Thank you for not letting us down!

@@doubtful_seer....WOW that's DEEP!!

@@doubtful_seer thx for that was waiting for someone to do that

I inserting my ispen in some values

Unmarked? That could stop some people that are smarter than the average bear. If it has a Kodak or Polaroid sticker on it with a vacation amusement park lanyard everyone will try and see what pictures are on there. Gets them every time.

And that is why you glue USB to PS2 converters into 2 ports and manually disconnect all others.

Always be wary of something you are inserting into your high value assets. Words to live by.

reminds me of a cyber security specialist my company hired to teach us older folks why USB attacks are the most insidious and dangerous. guy left USB sticks in the most random of places, with a first name of one of my co-workers or myself on some, stickers on others, vacation lanyards, hell, in one case an outright response code from our firm. any time one was plugged in, it would start blaring the word dumbass paired with a loud siren from the computer it was plugged in to and couldnt be shut off.

It contains a collection of all his favorite Pixar films, barring one notable exception.

@Thx ❤ You're aren't Rick Astley so I'm not clicking that!

@Thx ❤ Hey, stop that. We are here to see a lock fail miserably, not to he converted to Islam.

Seriously, when has Rick ever let you down? Never.

What is he, some sort of stranger to love?

I would absolutely love to watch this happen, good shout on sending one in!

if he gets one, particularly if it's a laptop, i imagine he'd need to disassemble it somewhere safe to ensure there's nothing malicious on the hardware side (it's not hard to make a battery explode/catch fire, hence mentioning laptops), and to disable bluetooth/wifi radios in hardware before booting, to ensure it's completely air-gapped before verifying the software side of things. perhaps just replacing the hard drive w/ a blank one and doing an OS install himself would be the safest thing after verifying the hardware and BIOS are fine. or if someone wishes to give him a pc it should be shipped to his PO box directly from a reputable seller and not from the random viewer

That was my thought!

@@ashlyy1341 or if LPL uses a laptop and upgrades he can just use the old one for this purpose and avoid have to do all that in the first place.

It would be rather underwhelming. I assume you're talking about the worst case scenario "you will never use that computer again." Specifically the USB is going to fry the motherboard. Here's what that would look like, assuming you have a monitor on and connected. Monitor goes dark, all the lights on the computer turn off. It doesn't turn back on. You won't hear a pop. It won't catch fire and you won't smell burnt components. It'll just die, like you unplugged it. The graphics card should be fine. The power supply will be fine. The hard drive(s) (including SSDs) should be fine. The optical drive will be fine. The RAM might be fine. The CPU might be fine. The motherboard and USB port will not be fine. Ideally you would be looking at $50+ (typically around $120) to replace the motherboard and $70-500 (typically around $250) to replace the CPU. Another $100 if the RAM is bad. But since everything plugs into the motherboard, it's a lot of work to replace one.

in more ways than just computers . . . .

Don't you mean "Not plugging in..." :) sry

@@kellysmith7357 plugged

Wish my clients could understand that too. Last week, an important shared drive on my network with some hundred gigabytes of data was about to get lost, thanks to replicas, daily backups and powerful Antivirus, I'm still at the place now! (reason was one of my client's computer having a virus that was trying to spread though the mapped share drive)

As an IT administrator myself I find it staggering that other IT "specialists" aren't able to inspect such sticks with a simple old offline throwaway pc. We do this at work since 2005.

@@HansDampf1911 while i agree, this channel is not about computers and technology - And that's a viable excuse for not doing so, in my opinion:-)

@@HansDampf1911 we called ours the ‘bomb disposer’, we would rotate scrap components and usb hubs.

No, you just test it at a internet bar.

Same. I also work in IT. We had an attack a few month back and fortunately the backup database was saved, but much of the shared folder got lost. Fortunately, we've had the pleasure to see positive change with the issued warning to ignore link in mail that do not come from a company we work with, from a name we know is from said company. Including from our own. Well, someone tried to pass for our CEO but used Gmail instead of our own mailing service. I must say I'm surprised it did not work, as myself would probably not have been too careful as I work closely with the CEO and I know he's prone to make changes, and send mails with link without warning.

BUT BRO I got the latest norton antivirus so I'm good! Only a real dumb-ass would get their pc hacked by a USB drive, like... just turn on your firewall! I took a typing class at my community center so I'm kind of a computer whiz at this point.

7 years into IT, I can totally see how people can be stupid when it comes to computers although, I'd like to break the stereotype here an say that most problems are not caused by users, they are caused by shitty IT people. I think I detest IT admins more than I detest users.

@@GerblerM Your firewall only defends you from incomming stuff over network but still... Your computer can easily be infected (no matter how good your "security" is) by USB drives like a rubber ducky (keystroke injection), if you plug it in while on an admin account then it can freely execute any powershell command as admin :)

@@Schdcdd oh yes there absolutely are an over abundance of shitty IT people.

Which only protects against known threats and only if you update it religiously. Yep, lots of dinguses posing as experts

I was waiting and waiting and nothing.

@@ryans6265 Don't give up just yet.

This was an anti Rick roll lol

I watched the video and even though I wasn't Rick Rolled, I know that LPL would never let me down... or run around and desert us

@@Dowlphin don’t worry I’m never gonna give up

Wow! A degree. You must know what you’re talking about.

Degree in Computer Science and interest in cybersecurity: you are NEVER covered, you can only decide what threat level is acceptable to you, and "i'm curious about what is in this drive" is a very low bar for the threat of killing a computer or USB threats. if you assume you are secure enough to do you are asking for trouble

it's a bad idea in general.. the D.O.D had USB slots on their computers. These were removed dew to people not realizing the risk. Surprising someone that is an highly educated electrical engineer made this mistake. Everyone makes mistakes tho

@@cladbecaha It's hilarious when the uneducated try to highroad those who are.

@@TroIIingThemSoftly I don't have a degree in cybersecurity, but I've been doing computer work since before such degrees became available. In my experience, whether or not you have a degree is largely irrellavent to how well you can do computer security. Experience, common sense, and intelligence count for much more. OTOH, Having a degree certainly makes it much easier to get a job in computer security.

I see what you did there lol.

Love your vids!

John Warosa thinks he is invulnerable

Hi atomic...ive been searching for you sir to give you a 1000,000,000 inheritance... Just send all those details you should never share😂😂😂😂 great content creator seriously 👍

Hey, when I'm done with college I want to move to England, could you do a video about daily life over there?

I've got a craving for Marmite

He should've started this video with the rickroll clip tbfh! 😂

and my day is ruined

@@tungdinh4114 you beat me to it

@thanks Dude, stop spamming everyone with that video.

You took the words right out of my mouth

you can brick your hardware even with malicious software and imean physically

just use a cheap arduino to read what device descriptor it reports. your overthinking it xD

Killing phisically a computer is not considered a digital threat anymore

digital security is worse arguably. it just takes one person with a quantum computer to destroy most security on the internet.

@@caseyleenb I don't know if you're joking, or just somewhat dense. A quantum computer is not something you buy in a grocery store, nor something you operate like a smartphone with a nice GUI and a touchscreen.

@@YOEL_44 I think you're the dense one here; since I doubt he was implying that any regular person could just go pick up and assemble a quantum computer like a LEGO set, proceeding to then take over the world in a matter of days through the knowledge gained from watching a KZfaq tutorial from 2012. What I'm assuming he meant is that if someone (or a team) not only knew how to operate a quantum computer, but owned one, they could probably demolish most security options available on the internet with ease.

YOEL _44 Pretty sure he just meant a powerful/good computer, not specifically a quantum computer.

yep

I sure he has dummy setups solely for that purpose now.

Like a Raspberry Pi 3. $35. Most viruses don't know how to infect a Linux computer.

He did mention in the comments of the original video that there was some dodgecoin on it. He gave the amount in usd and then some to a charity.

@@Scynthius137 Linux is way more spread (all those android devices) and it is a sweet target for criminals since a LOT of people think that you don't need protection if you use Linux. You are helping bad guys by repeating this "Most viruses don't know how to infect a Linux computer" mantra. All you need is 1 virus to lose all your money, passwords, private videos? etc.

I recall a story about the Iranian nuclear program. They had this facility in a small town, supposedly secret. The computers at the site were on a private network, no way to access over the internet. So, they dropped a thumb drive on the sidewalk in town, with a malicious virus on it, and sure enough, someone found it, and took it to work and stuck it into their work station! It took them months to recover their computers, and important data never recovered. Like that old saying, “curiosity killed the cat”.

How did you get approval to base your thesis on the Rickroll?!?

@@alphagt62 As far as I'm aware several were seeded in the immediate environment, but the likelihood is that someone walked one in intentionally, from what I've read about the centrifuge attack at Natanz, and background on Stuxnet generally. The story about seeding drives in the immediate environment is a good cover though.

I bet the sourcing for that thesis was fun!!! (I'm a nerd, I know. Things like this I can read ALL DAY LONG) Hey, if you wanna share, I'd love to read it? If not, I'll understand.

How do we know know our host doesn't work in IT security?

It's more like saying "I won't get sick if I eat random food I find laying around in public" while you probably won't, you just might and also you might eat something that's laced with poison and die.

@@Jermain-cz4bh For the same reason someone with fill a fake USB with capacitors.

No, just good security practice. Tell me, would you brush your teeth with a tooth brush you found on the ground?

Omg you really want to eat a food that's say eat me on the side walk?

@@Jermain-cz4bh have you gotten food poisoning?

Absolute bastard. Why would he do this?

Your company has a problem with security to rig, gear and possibly anything else back stage.

@@davysmith1934 There was a case in SF where one music rental company - F'ed up the equipment of another one in order to gain emergency business at $$$ by a power device.

@@danielweston9188 MONSTERS. That's not fair ball; you out compete, over-price, but you don't do that!

@thanks kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrenZ9pqvM28k4U.html

3,000 years from now... on a colony lightyears from earth... people will still be getting Rick-Rolled. By that time he'll be part of the old-Earth mythology right alongside Zeus, Apollo and my cat.

@@MikkoLaulainen kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8WKaNRimpirg4U.html

There's even a world record for most done in a day, and to make it better when the Guinness committee asked the guy applying for the record what a rick roll was he rick rolled them too.

We’re never gonna give it up and It’s never gonna let us down.

And we expect nothing less from LPL. He is our security ASMR

@thanks Stop the spam with the toilet sound.

@@dmkfwolf2669 I've gone through and reported all their posts I could find.

It's great. I'm all for this

@thanks please tell me you didnt monetize this

Phones also enable dragnets. There was a civilian dragnet a while back that tracked the route of a Chinese sub using GPS in it's crew's cell phones.

Yeah, I'm sitting here going, "Where can I get these?" LOL

@@susanavenir WE NEED INFORMATION

@@susanavenir SAME

I want this as well, along with that criptex USB ❤ And if you don't trust the original USB, I bet it can removed and changed for a different one too

Oh shit yeah definitely. That would be awesome.

Of course they were. Corporate makes regular, mandatory training for all employees detailing these kind of threats. There's absolutely no excuse for making this kind of mistake.

if you really must investigate the thing, do it properly and be sensible. Do as LPL did and remove it from the housing and inspect it first, then use something like a cheap ass Raspberry Pi that's not connected to anything to plug the drive into so you can take a look at the contents - if it passed inspection and is actually a drive instead of an electrical discharge device.

@@Si74l0rd "On most decent quality motherboards the USB ports are fused, so if you insert a USB killer all it will do is trip the fuse. " Firstly, the data lines aren't fused because they don't carry power. Secondly, fuses operate to protect against excessive current and do nothing against high voltages. Thirdly, The devices described are capable of charging up from the 5V USB power and then stepping the voltage up internally to 50V or more. This voltage is then used as the source for the final step-up stage where the stored voltage is amplified 4-5 times to give a few hundred volts injected onto the data pins.

@@gnuthad This is the correct response. I've not seen a consumer device yet that is able to defeat this type of attack.

@@gnuthad Well, that sounds painful... might give a nasty jolt to a human in contact with the wrong part, too. Wonder if these things have ever started a fire in the PC. Thanks for the info.

I dont understand why he says so if opening that lock took more time that opening a master

@@Nachesko Probably because opening it requires no tools of any kind, meaning even if it takes a (short) while to open, anybody could conceivably do so at any time with no preparation.

I mean just looking at them they're pretty obviously just for show, I'm sure there are far better approaches for practical security you could install on the drive, in fact I remember using an encryption software on one once to hide a friend's porn stash for him back in the day haha absolutely no recollection of how it worked tho, like if you needed an app to decrypt it on the computer or not...

Nothing wrong with "not a serious security device" unless it is trying to pretend to be a serious security device. IMO this thing is fine cool looking toy. I like cool looking toys. ;)

@@travcollier Indeed. I wish he'd spent a bit more time on showcasing the device itself, instead of glossing over it like he did.

Never gonna lock you up Never gonna pin you down Never gonna fall in false set and reset you

@thanks begone bot

@@maxshykhov7518 🤜🤛

I just sang that. Amazing :)

There was no binding on 2 & 4 But I felt clicks at 6, 1, 3 & 5

u could build hardware to detect it i guess.

This comment is amazing lol. I'm laughing a lot.

@@yadsewnde8699 You are most welcome.

Lmfao

wow lol fantastic comment

@@DannySullivanMusic thanks.

There are people out there who think the monitor is actually the PC. There are no limits to human stupidity.

Someone in my high school gave all the teachers USB capacitor drive like he just showed which fried a lot of the computers at school.

Always remember "Half of the people you meet are stupid. And twice the people you don't meet are stupider than that." Either they think they know better, or they believe they've accounted for all situations (Spoilers: They didn't)

@@Lysoul2 They're called USB killers

@@janematthews9087 the phrase I like to say is "however stupid you think an average person is, realize that half of them are dumber than that"

It's kinda sad tbh but great at the same time

Are you saying he is the goatse of our time?

@@ps.2 possibly worse, given the earworm nature of "Never gonna give you up". You can drink enough to forget goatse.

I have been in IT for 20+ years and I have seen it all. You can reiterate all you want, the problem is that people simply dont care and/or learn from their mistakes. You could show this video to 100 people and 1 year from now hand those people a USB drive which you said you found on the ground and every single one of those people will plug it into their computer. Heck, you could do the same experiment with IT professionals and I would still bet that *well* into the upper 90th percentile would plug it into their computers.

yeah like the unknown links two idiots keep posting askeladd amd Fiqih Wanita

@@finkelmana I believe the problem is that people "know better". Don't speed? I know better. I'm a better driver than most, I can handle faster speeds and have perfect reflexes! That rule is for idiots, not me! Don't do drugs? I know better. I've known this dealer since highschool and he got a b+ in chemistry. He's never sold me anything dangerous before. That rule is for idiots, not me! Everyone is an expert in everything, because we compare ourselves with the idiots. And we all ignore the fact that we're the ones acting like idiots every time.

"Any computer" is a stretch. If you prepare a potentially sacrificial computer properly, you can learn interesting things from malicious USB devices.

@@punpundit5590 Although true, Id rather leave that caveat unwritten for the sake of the majority of people

don't buy cheap hi-capacity drives at prices to good to be true.....

Same haven't seen one of those in a long time.

we got baited

That's almost like a reverse rick-roll. We came here expecting it and *IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE*

A rigged-roll

hahaha very nice

There is no wonder "ignorance is bliss" is a common saying. Apparently, it is. Untill it gives you a gut punch when your life is ruined. Sometimes my mother does not understand why I shred or burn any sensitive information I want to discard. And that is the easy part. IT is a beast of its own.

@@Django45 I found if you take sensitive information, shred it, then use it as fireplace kindling, you can watch the shredded dust fly into the air. It's actually entertaining, I recommend it.

news flash old man there are a countless number of videos about usb killers with millions of views. your special it training from the 90s isnt so special anymore.

@@fezzes428 Who asked tho

@@L44tsmasher735 shred? na mate...dissolve it :p sulfuric acid and a bit of chlorine work wonders on chips etc.

Yep. When other people are being inconvenienced, it's "security." When it's _Karen_ being inconvenienced, it's "Oh my gawd, I can't believe you're doing this to _me!"_

@@ShadowDragon8685 And from that you found a way to drag Karens into it. Its like Howard always managed to mention he went to space, no matter the original topic.

I have quite a bunch of contacts that had their e-mails compromised sending random spam nowadays, it makes me puzzled that someone would feel it weird to need confirmation of sending files via e-mail.

Wow, you are doing a security best practice and people think it is stupid, wish I could say I was surprised though.

When i leave my home i always wear a mask and most ppl look at me like i'm stupid but i dont care bc i know i'm right. And with the email thing: i just never open suspicious attachments and have all the time a virus scanner/guard running in the background and use vpn, so what. Going outdoor without a mask (when ppl in the near, less than 10m) or computing without a scanner is like having seggs with random ppl without doing it safe. This world is entirely paranormal but it doesnt hold me back from doing things safe. And the other idiots who dont feel the need to protect themself and the other ppl they come close to are potential killers. So guess what i think about ppl nowadays. I wish all good ppl all the best and no, i will not discuss about what i wrote, thanks.

@liouy cnny That's a weird bot, looks like it copied one of the top comments, but just a part of it

yeah too bad it's so crappy though LOL

I want it so bad

I hear from a review, some of the Doctor Who pocket watches have plastic in them though.

@@joejoethepigeon2628 - hahaha, thats incredible

You got a good point there, I've been using an offline HP laptop with a celeron 2gb ram and 32gb storage. Mostly just because if something goes wrong it's really easy to zerofile it with only 32gb emmc and then reinstall windows but a raspberry pi would probably be much better.

@@nesyboi9421 gets nls_933w.dll and it reprograms ur hdd firmware.. xD

This mostly works, but there's a nightmare situation a few times where people have shipped literal plastic explosives in the casing of a flash drive as a terrorist attack (you can find news coverage of a recent incident by Googling "Ecuador 2023 usb attack"), so it's still very possible that even using a machine you don't care about might not protect you from serious injury.

A true englishman, so to speak, isnt he? :D

@@Django45 He was indeed born on a wrong continent.

To check USB drives i have an old pc with no Hard Drive and no internet connection running Puppy Linux. This way i assure that i can scan the Drives or Format them if necessary.

@@agustinmartinez9798 how does it work with no hard drive? or do you mean it has a ssd?

Buncha people now know exactly what it feels like to be a Masterlock.

I hope you re-wrote that section of the manual 😉

My university had a FUCKING MALWARE plague everyone's USBs for a while because some dipshit KEPT pluging an INFECTED ONE on the machines.... the IT guy was really annoyed, but he at least helped purge the crap off anyone that got an infected USB.... and some labs with the better PCs were left unusable for a few weeks for a year BECAUSE he had to go and manually clean everything from those units

When I was a student in university, they told us to make a text file in our usb drive's root directory that had our contact info. The intention was so that anyone following a policy like from your computer lab would be able to return it if lost. At the time, I thought "wow that's a good idea". It was years ago, and I know better now.

We keep a burner laptop at our Help Desk in case someone brings something in on a flash drive. It never touches our network unless it's been wiped and we are re-imaging it.

I actually kept a folder on my school one attached to my keys for years, folder name “owner contact”, and inside was a single txt file with my name, phone number, email, and dorm name (no room number). It saved my butt only once but was worth it for that. Note, it was shaped like a turtle, so it wasn’t obviously a drive to begin with. They ended up asking at the front desk if they knew my room number as they’d found my keys. Saved me 60$ from having to replace the dorm room lock.

You sound like a smart person

That's when it goes into my clean cheap off-the-network raspberry pi where I can check the contents :)

Reminds me of an episode of NCIS.

You sound like someone, that has a clear and stable mind, im happy that people like you still exist. You've become rare.

I don't understand...

Hi What does PSA mean?

@@Sruggs public service announcement

@@pruke8720 ah that makes sense, thank you :)

*homer simpson voice* mmmmm, burger

It's more like engaging in unprotected sex with a complete stranger you only just met a second ago.

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine I'm okay with both sex, and a garage burger, but don't fuck with my computer

I know of another classic: Don't stick your winky where you wouldn't put your pinky.

Well if it's a Culver's Butterburger I'll take my chances.

Also, "Do not insert your dongle into untrusted ports." I live by this rule.

Not without proper insulation;)

Great advice to teenage girls as well.

always wear protection

“pre-computer days”

Like any 'security' device it is another layer of hassle, watching this channel really shows how even a 'pretty good' lock can be beaten by somebody prepared for it in basically no time, at least if they also possess some skill with the tools... And because its so pretty, and not obviously a lockbox folks after your digital secrets might well not look at it twice, thinking its just your inherited pocket watch, compass etc, so I actually quite like it as a security accessory - small enough to keep on you, and looks like something you might choose to keep on you, not obviously what it really is if somebody comes across it at your desk... Soon as they know what it really is its of no use at all, like any security through obscurity it doesn't last once its secret is known, but its damn cool still.

@keep rollin damn i thought it was a rick roll but no its one of those bots...

You can get a cable to protect against voltage attacks

Indeed, I could totally see a disgruntled employee dropping one of those near their boss's parking space, etc.

I absolutely love that you brought up that the biggest kink in security are the meatsacks walking around, moreover their hubris and lack of fear. Even in physical security, you need to estabish why the parimiter is so critical, if you have people who are bringing in untrusted sources, or devices, it can quickly go from a secure location to a place under constant survaliance just because they did some stupid stuff. People who think, "well i've never been attacked, so everyone else must just be really stupid" are the most terrifying people to deal with as security.

If I could like your comment twice, I would. Made my day.

I think a comparison in this situation would be that putting a random USB stick in is a bit like you opening the lock to your house with the keys and then passing the lock over to someone you think you can trust who goes in with a building crew while you go on holiday and don't look at what they do next... By the time you realise they have robbed your house and changed the locks it's too late.

@@ThatGoth no, it's more like inviting a stranger inside. It _could_ be harmless, or they could pull a weapon on you, call in their buddies, and trash everything

And you have to take turns attacking a master lock

@@jacob8565 You don't need to take turns with a Master Lock, because the 1st amateur to try will get it open.

ick, the bane of all hardware.. programmable host controllers! (whoever originally thought this was a good idea, obviously didn't have much forward thinking)

What else would that firmware do?

it's also common to edit the firmware to make the capacity higher then it actually is

@@metaparalysis3441 That would be the firmware of the device controller in the stick, not the firmware (if any) in the host controller in the computer. To the extent some host controllers contain their own CPU and firmware, that would be pretty useless given that the entire protocol and driver stack is designed around less than 10 designs of mostly stupid hardware by Intel, AMD, NEC and ARM. Attacking the device driver seems a more viable route, as a modified device driver will have unlimited access to the entire computer.

Well, to be fair: You're forgetting the nuclear silos with their passwords set to 0000. For decades on end.

Wow, I hope they are using a locked down Linux and reboot-to-restore to do that. If not, it's just a great way to propagate zero day attack like Stuxnet did.

@@ouicestbien Like you actually know.

@@ouicestbien It wasn't like it was some way to access the silo. It was an extra lock on the launch sequence that they ended up determining wasted too much time to be worthwhile, so effectively disabled it. You still have to go through a bunch of armed guards and giant steel doors (and, of course, the base's perimeter security) to get to the silo in the first place. And have the launch keys.

@@johnnylavoie Systems like these just run on live CDs, no need to complicate things.

That's not a flaw

he likes rick astley, but not more than he likes having a computer and a secure internet connection

Personally? I don't think the song's bad - it's quite good, really - but I've been subjected to it while trying to watch something else _far_ too many times to associate it with anything but annoyance.

I feel like he really let me down.

@@TheChronova He said it was annoying in the video.

Watchtime is the mother of views, so brevity is not incentivized. I believe LTT has the luxury of doing KZfaq as a hobby. Meanwhile, most young people are either employed by their KZfaq channels or busy doing other things they're paid for.

There is no security but physical, and airgap is its protocol.

@Arthur Sounds like a really hackerman of a client

@@WhereWhatHuh even the gap, isnt always save, you might not get direct access, but there is alot of Radio waves and signals being radiatet into the air which you could read out with enough invetment and the right machines

@@WhereWhatHuh if someone wanted to destroy ur device from a mile away, it could be done. Airgap or not

@@WhereWhatHuh Even airgap can be breached by special phreaking side-channel attacks because computers can leak sensitive data through emanating electromagnetic waves.

It's also possible to simply have a malfunctioning device cause damage.

i agree! 100% true!!

yeah that's just meant to fry the device. now for the fun part, the newer usb 3 ports, the ones that are superfast (not to be confused with ysb 2.0 superspeed)... connect to pcie lanes, either through a bridge or directly to the cpu. it could do a lot more than burn out the USB controller, this attack could literally kill your laptop

He's absolutely right about being very careful what you expose your beloved computer to, be it Windows or iMac.

just imagine plugging one into a high end gaming computer lolz

Can you imagine if you work at the bank he uses?

@@pierrecurie What about take out place? "Oh yeah sure buddy you wanted 2 large pies uh huh."

True story. A business partner working for a really big corp. called me and asked me if I could call the Interconti in Belgrade and book him a room for next week. I said: sure, no problem. But I can also give you their number I have it right here. He said: Oh I have the number, but they keep hanging up on me when I tell them my name. His name is James Bond...

Rock Astley is still alive, and I'd be willing to bet he does run into trouble! Haha

What do you mean "had", the guy is still alive an kickin, he had a reddit AMA a few years back, where he himself got rickrolled...