• Robust Mirror@aussie.zone
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    3 days ago

    Sure, but I mean the chances of someone creating a virus specifically to run when plugged into a pi running pi OS or other Linux os with the purpose of attacking the eeprom, delivered by dropping usb sticks in public is so ridiculously small it has to be functionally non existent.

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      3 days ago

      I’d honestly just run it on my Linux laptop with the network disabled. It’s old, so if it gets wrecked, I’m really not out much. And the risk of someone bothering to target Linux is incredibly small, so I’m comfortable with the risk.

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        3 days ago

        True, you could probably solve that by breaking the casing off first if you’re insistent on trying it. They don’t look like a normal usb stick on the inside. Also I’d imagine it isn’t really feasible to just go dropping them around but maybe you can get them cheap enough somewhere.