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[Discuss] code for hacked USB drive (BadUSB) released on Github



On 10/6/2014 3:06 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
> If these drives look like an ordinary USB storage drive when first
> attached, I wonder what they are using as a trigger to have them switch

They don't switch. A USB device can be only one kind (class) of device
at a time. This is set when the device is initialized with the root hub.

-- 
Rich P.



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