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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
There's long been much handwringing around Halloween around the prospect of pins, needles and razor blades being hidden in candy and passed out to children. On the very rare occasion this does happen, the outcome is normally little more than some superficial cuts. However, for 2019, [MG] has developed an altogether different surreptitious payload to be delivered to trick or treaters.
Consisting of a small USB device named DemonSeed, it's a HID attack gadget in the genre of the BadUSB devices we've seen previously. When plugged in, the unit emulates a USB keyboard and can be programmed to enter whatever keystrokes are necessary to take over the machine or exfiltrate data. Files are available on Github for those looking to replicate the device.
The trick here is in the delivery. [MG] has produced a large quantity of these small devices, packaging them in anti-static wrappers. The wrappers contain a note instructing children to insert them into their parent's work computers to access "game codes", and to share them with their friends while hiding them from adults.
The idea of children brazenly plugging hostile USB devices into important computers is enough to make any IT manager's head spin, though we suspect [MG] doesn't actually intend to deploy these devices in anger. It serves as a great warning about the potential danger of such an attack, however. Stay sharp, and keep your office door locked this October 31st!
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 03 2019, @11:11PM (7 children)
No they're not. They're on the same aisle in most every store that sells razor blades as the "I'm a huge pansy and afraid I'll cut myself" disposable blades and they cost about a buck for a pack instead of $5-15. They're what I use when I'm not on a quest for epic beard-dom.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 03 2019, @11:31PM (6 children)
Yeah - Home Depot, disposable blades, I think there were ten in the package. About seven bucks. Just plain single edge utility razors, but disposable shaving blades don't cost much more unless they have some macho-sounding name and however many blades is fashionable this year. When Hudson said "straight razor", I pictured a nice blade that you might be willing to pay $50 or more for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_razor [wikipedia.org]
Ya know, after 9/11/01 I wonder why we don't have to show an ID, and have a background security check to buy razor blades? Any one of us could hijack a bus or something, right?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @02:54AM (3 children)
Man, buy them at WalMart or wherever you get your shaving stuff. They're like a buck fiddy for half a dozen double-edged blades and they're right by all the other blades. Mind you, if you got bigass Golem hands like me you're going to hate using safety razors because of how small the handles are.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 04 2019, @05:00AM (2 children)
I don't even shave, lol! I only use those blades in my knifes.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 04 2019, @05:13AM (1 child)
Wrong kind of razor blades. Those are utility knife blades. They're probably ten times as thick as the ones used for the old safety razors that lost popularity back in the sixties and seventies. And only one side of utility knife blades is sharp instead of both sides (there is no back, they're symmetrical). Unless you were thinking of the ones you'd use to scrape stuff off of glass with, in which case pretty much exactly like those if the sharp side were mirrored.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday November 09 2019, @09:07PM
I've posted a link to a recent CBC story about a razor blade in a chocolate bar from this Halloween below.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 04 2019, @02:05PM (1 child)
Except of course, we couldn't, because people have changed their behavior.
See what happened to the underwear bomber, instead of cowering, people mobbed him. Once people saw what the cost of doing nothing was, they started to see that doing something, while dangerous, might still be safer.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday November 04 2019, @04:59PM
Yes, and God bless the vertebrates. The spineless may inherit the earth, but I don't want to be there with them.