junior infosec: how could you even consider plugging in an SD card you found on the ground, it could be malicious!

senior infosec: if they can root my macbook m3 from plugging in an SD card then they deserve to run whatever the hell they want

@0xabad1dea sd-cards like this are much safer than usbs. because a usb can be a keyboard, without even using any exploits
@green @0xabad1dea a random thing that looks like an sd card could still contain USB killer like circuitry though. you can't root anything with that but you can still destroy it
@lis @green USB killers already only exist in electronics labs. A much thinner, more fragile SD card found on the ground is not, within a margin of error of one in a hundred billion, a USB killer
@0xabad1dea @lis what do you mean, only in labs? i thought the circuitry was pretty simple. just charge up a huge capacitor, and blast that back into the port. tho it's hard to fit a capacitor like that into an sd card
@green @lis I don't mean you need some special three million dollar piece of equipment. I mean normal godsdam human beings do not make USB killers, do not use USB killers, do not have USB killers lying around, all USB killers are rattling around inside drawers in electronics labs and not scattered around like landmines in public parking lots
@0xabad1dea @green @lis I disagree. I just looked around and saw that USB killer was on my desk, just under the oscilloscope between an RF attenuator and an amplifier. It was definitely not in the drawer.