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



It is, however, not difficult to have a USB device reset itself and then
change its answer when re-initialized.


*Drew Van Zandt*

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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