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Samy Kamkar: PoisonTap – exploiting locked computers over USB (samy.pl)
18 points by jimbolimbo3 on Nov 16, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Very clever. Apparently by default, Windows, OS X and Linux recognize an ethernet device, load it as a network device and perform a DHCP request, even when the machine is locked or password protected. Ouch.


Samy is basically a modern day magician. I'd recommend watching most every blog post and video of his.

His youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/s4myk




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