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goobster · 3019 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today in "Is it For Real, or another episode of Madame Secretary"
But it is even more nefarious than that. Your institution (the NSA, for example) will have "special" USB sticks that you are authorized to use because they are "protected". The Sauron kit even works on these protected USB sticks! It knows what the protection software is and how it works, and knows how to work around it. So it doesn't even take a dumb user picking up a random USB and sticking it in their computer. All it needs is for this USB to have been used on another computer that is (basically invisibly) infected with Sauron. That is some Grade A nastiness, right there, my friends.