Someone wrote this at me recently:
And a thought occured to me, Zig Forums, are my Chinese-made USB devices hacking my machine?
Are all these little usb toys turning my machine into a secret botnet?
Are they loaded down with little cpus and memory chips designed to infect my machine with malwares to take over the world?
Alright, you insist "no", I'm being paradroid.
Fine.
But have you checked?
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if you own any you deserve to get hacked and raped too
Possibly yes. Probably not. You could plug them into a chinese usb hub with power only.
I wonder if anyone's created a USB dongle that show if the D+ D- pins are being used by flashing LEDs like on the ethernet port.
All your devices are Chinese-made in the first place.
The Chinese botnet chip that they stuck on motherboards is fucking teeny tiny, they could easily fit something like that into an SD card.
This kingston one I owned a few years ago had an activity led.
Yes
most likely nah, the chinese try to cut down costs to the point to the point where it's barely operational (and sometimes, not even fully functional), but if you insist you can always tear the plastic apart and look up the datasheets of the chips, not that you'd find anything. besides how the heck would it even work from the software side of things?