paranoid about being hacked?

[kroz]

swim new people that did drugs at a point, and one of them was a good friend for many years. It seemed when he would hang around these people virus would pop up on my computer weird shit would happen. later he got a newer laptop and had an aquaintence come over that was some how tied to these other people loosely.. maybe not loosely. anyways he comes over and ask if i want to watch a movie on my laptop and hands me a thumb drive, I being to put it in but dont put it in all the way (like i didnt push it in all the way where the files on the thumb drive would pop up) i made an excuse why i didnt want to do that... and he kinda smiled... like he new why i did want to do it.

Am i being paranoid? how would i know if i got badUSB'd?  just a couple hours before this event another friend was over who i don't think has any association to my knowledge with these people. He asked to use my wifi and i freaked out and told him no way eventually kicking him out of my house.

wtf?

how far would you have to slip in a thumb drive to make "contact" with a computer? just slight touch ? halfway in? all the way?

[aldra]

how far would you have to slip in a thumb drive to make "contact" with a computer? just slight touch ? halfway in? all the way?

just the tip




it sounds like you're being paranoid; if the files didn't show then the drive wasn't recognised by the computer so it wasn't pushed in all the way.

the USB hacks are way overblown because they require knowledge of which USB chipset you're using and pretty much have to be custom-crafted for your computer, which is way outside the skillset of petty low-level drug dealers.

[kroz]

how far would you have to slip in a thumb drive to make "contact" with a computer? just slight touch ? halfway in? all the way?

just the tip


were you joking about just the tip? i mean sometimes i plug in my external hard drive and dont hear a sound or anything pop up , i have to go click on the button in computer section. swim thinks he is being gang stalked and be spied on to give information to the police and or film him and steal his private videos and pictures to sell as pornography.

it sounds like you're being paranoid; if the files didn't show then the drive wasn't recognised by the computer so it wasn't pushed in all the way.

the USB hacks are way overblown because they require knowledge of which USB chipset you're using and pretty much have to be custom-crafted for your computer, which is way outside the skillset of petty low-level drug dealers.

[-SpectraL]

Install a rule-based firewall (preferably in Safe Mode) and you can then view, examine, lookup, and manage individual connections as they are attempted.

[aldra]

yeah I was joking about just the tip.

you could do as spectral said or fire up wireshark to monitor any new connections your computer tries to make, though I'd definitely suggest converting to linux or *bsd if you're concerned about security.

[zok jr.]

how far would you have to slip in a thumb drive to make "contact" with a computer? just slight touch ? halfway in? all the way?

just the tip




it sounds like you're being paranoid; if the files didn't show then the drive wasn't recognised by the computer so it wasn't pushed in all the way.

the USB hacks are way overblown because they require knowledge of which USB chipset you're using and pretty much have to be custom-crafted for your computer, which is way outside the skillset of petty low-level drug dealers.

Controller*

[kroz]

how far would you have to slip in a thumb drive to make "contact" with a computer? just slight touch ? halfway in? all the way?

just the tip




it sounds like you're being paranoid; if the files didn't show then the drive wasn't recognised by the computer so it wasn't pushed in all the way.

the USB hacks are way overblown because they require knowledge of which USB chipset you're using and pretty much have to be custom-crafted for your computer, which is way outside the skillset of petty low-level drug dealers.

Controller*

controller?

[zok jr.]

It's a usb controller, not a chipset.