• RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      And y'all thought it happened through the well known mechanisms they have to monitor every single internet thing.

  • Owl [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is going to hack your phone into displaying an article on how it hacked your phone, plus a link to their recruitment website. Because the kind of person who wants to work at the NSA would think that's neat.

    If they were trying to use this to actually scoop up data, it'd be unlabeled and at an airport. (By the way, don't use random USB cables you found around. It probably won't be the NSA but it'll be someone.)

    • Skeletor [any]
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      3 years ago

      By the way, don’t use random USB cables

      Why?

      • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        An innocuous "Free Charging Station" USB cable can be a data transferring USB cable. Although depending on your phone, you do at least have to typically allow such things when the cable's plugged in but it never hurts to just avoid them when possible as they could also be tampered internally too I suppose.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        You can put shit inside the connector.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        No difference between a USB cable and a thumb drive. Your device might run some sort of virus off a thumb drive. It shouldn't without you asking, but technology is hacks upon hacks upon ill-advised ideas that sounded good once in the 90s, so it might not. You also might accidentally give your phone permission to run said virus, because you fat-fingered it or are tired (which you probably are in a situation you might encounter an unknown USB charger).

        • Skeletor [any]
          ·
          3 years ago

          No difference between a USB cable and a thumb drive.

          What the fuck.

          :agony-minion:

  • bobby_digital [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    is this like the cops hiring dumb guys where if you plug your phone in you are demonstrating you would be a good drone?

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    there are "condom" cable adapters that only let power through, connect with one of those

  • rational_thinker [fae/faer]
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    3 years ago

    Fuck off you do realize if you're not a terrorist you have nothing to fear from the big scary government. Although I wouldn't be surprised if many of you are domestic terrorists seeing how much you hate the greatest country on the planet.

      • rational_thinker [fae/faer]
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        3 years ago

        China is a third world shithole dictatorship that mass incarcerates Muslims you claim to love so much. They all terrorists now? Everyone with a dissenting belief that got gulagged for it was a terrorist?

        • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          You have been visited by the hog with shit on its balls. All your replies will contain hogs with shit on their balls unless you fuck off.

          :PIGPOOPBALLS:

    • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      You have been visited by the hog with shit on its balls. All your replies will contain hogs with shit on their balls unless you fuck off.

      :PIGPOOPBALLS:

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      if you’re not a terrorist

      :ecoterrorism: :anti-shinra-action: