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are USB floppies toxic?

To: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: are USB floppies toxic?
From: [email protected] (Cathal (Phone))
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:10:00 +0000
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

How hard would it be to scratch a trace or two off a USB drive to render it read-only and protect the chip from BadBIOS-style flashing? I think USB floppy is just separating the storage from the drivers, but ultimately changes nothing.

On 29 October 2014 14:56:41 GMT+00:00, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote:
>We know USB flash is is Biosafety 4, what about other sneaker-net
>suitable
>storage media? USB floppies are still around, as well as media, which
>are write-protectable.
>
>How easy to hop the air gap with these?

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