{"id":9664,"date":"2014-11-30T21:38:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2015-03-01T19:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:46:10","slug":"can-you-catch-a-virus-from-an-e-cigarette-perhaps-you-need-a-usb-condom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/can-you-catch-a-virus-from-an-e-cigarette-perhaps-you-need-a-usb-condom\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you catch a Virus from an E-Cigarette? Perhaps you need a USB Condom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9670\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9670\" class=\"wp-image-9670 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"bill the vaper\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From @williammanning<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A computer virus that is, and you can.\u00a0 Seems there is a reported case, on Reddit, of an e-cigarette delivering a payload of malware once plugged into the USB port.\u00a0 A cheap device from China it seems. No shocker there.\u00a0 So what should we learn from this especially given the post I did yesterday on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/bought-a-black-friday-cheap-tablet-better-step-up-security-on-that-thing\/\"> lasp security and perhaps back doors left open on cheap Android tablets<\/a> from China, that anything coming from a source you do not fully trust could have an number of security risks associated to them.\u00a0 How about that wifi blue tooth app you bought?\u00a0 Yup, it could have one too.<\/p>\n<p>They way it works is pretty simple.\u00a0 You plug the USB in, it pretends to be a keyboard, call a file on the device and execute.\u00a0 Now a number of thing can go wrong with this process, but when you have thousands of these guys out there, a 1 in 100 rate would be pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is Reddit so take it for what its worth.\u00a0 But if you are sufficiently paranoid now, there is hope.\u00a0 You can get a USB Condom.\u00a0 Yup, head over the kickstarter and get in on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/224386777\/syncstop-prevent-data-theft-and-malware-on-mobile\">SyncStop<\/a> &#8211; Prevent data theft and malware on mobile devices&#8221;. Makes sense actually, you have no idea of a USB is just getting power short of talking it apart or shooting the middle connectors, but this is not fool proof.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hope I made your life just that much richer by adding yes another e-boggie-man.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9665 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/usb-condom-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"usb condom\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/usb-condom-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/usb-condom.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H3>Related Posts<\/H3><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Panic based supply-side economics or the great toilet paper panic of 2020\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2020\/03\/panic-based-supply-side-economics-or-the-great-toilet-paper-panic-of-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Panic based supply-side economics or the great toilet paper panic of 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"New Android Trojan found, but is it a big weakness?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/new-android-trojan-found-but-is-it-a-big-weakness\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">New Android Trojan found, but is it a big weakness?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Access iPhone as an external drive via wifi: Review of Discover\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/access-iphone-ipod-as-an-external-drive-via-wifi-review-of-discover\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Access iPhone as an external drive via wifi: Review of Discover<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer virus that is, and you can.\u00a0 Seems there is a reported case, on Reddit, of an e-cigarette delivering a payload of malware once plugged into the USB port.\u00a0 A cheap device from China it seems. No shocker there.\u00a0 So what should we learn from this especially given the post I did yesterday on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/can-you-catch-a-virus-from-an-e-cigarette-perhaps-you-need-a-usb-condom\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1922,105,91,455,59],"tags":[2257,2259,212,2258,735],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to-2","category-product-review","category-random-thoughts","category-rumor-control","category-tips","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-syncstop","tag-usb","tag-usb-condoms","tag-virus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bill-the-vaper.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjzQD-2vS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9672,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}