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>be me
>goes to a cybersecurity event
>freebies all around
>fuckyeah.png
>get really cool stuff, like a multitool capable of cutting wires, measuring your gentleman's sausage length as well and opening bottles
>get a folder from Sophos, they've protected my phone for years I could never hesitate a gift from them
>get a weird 4 cable bundle connected to a circle from some unknown cybersec company from shenzen
>majorfuckingredflagalarm.mp3
>ask them if the cables can charge or transfer data
>they say it only charges, doesn't transfer data
>takes it home
>notices the missing pin on both sides of the lightning cable
>decides to look it up
>come across a reddit post about this
>look at the comments
>it's literally talking about how these cables are knock-offs of knock-offs of knock-offs or they were made in production with extreme cut offs
>decide to cut open the lightning cable
>find out it has 2 copper wires
>do some research and find out 2 wires for 1 cord means it's charging only, at least they didn't lie
>find out online these also come with NFC but it's an extra that must be paid for
I've sealled off the hole where the lightning cable used to be and used super glue to seal it permanently, should I bother using it or nah?
Also, did I make the right call by cutting off the cable? I wouldn't want even my worst enemy to use a cable like that. BTW how do I find out if it has NFC, I can't pry it open even with the multi-tool.
Bro I ain't trusting no mother fucker from china lmfao.
>zoomer thinks doing basic opsec is being a shizo
is what i would've said but then i remembered that zoomers dont think
>basic opsec
>the charging cable is just a charging cable
>doesn't even have the data pin
>schizo tard raged and chopped up the cable
>to find out that yes, it really is a charging cable
Why do people still use gifs?
lossless format
I can't post webms on Facebook
>using kikebook
Until they allow audio there's not much point to using webm, as it stands webm is gif with extra steps.
Doesn't work on my KurobaEX - shit
Works - good
soul
soulless
OP is a zoomer though
>hurr durr muh opsec
anyone who uses that military LARP word is guaranteed a sub 110 IQ midwit.
is right.
cutting up a phone charger cable doesn't make you cool.
It’s retarded to plug anything you get for free into your devices especially if you got it at a cybersecurity convention like google stuxnet stupid
fpbp
KEK
I'd like to add that OP also needs to check his attic for signs of a Chinese spy balloon.
It was already garbage, then you made it worse by cutting it up. Just toss it.
>a multitool capable of cutting wires, measuring your gentleman's sausage length as well and opening bottles
A knife?
It had no knife. it had a box cutter tho on it's side embedded into the tool. i should mention it's the size of a card.
>go to cybersecurity conference
>thinks it's a good idea to plug anything free into his phone
You are an idiot
I never said I plugged it into anything
OP Here, so something I didn't mention, I only used it for one thing, which was to charge my bluetooth earphones, before I did the cut I unplugged it, it was charging for 4 minutes, not even what, 0.5cm from unplugging the LED Lights turn off, it was at this moment now as I am writing this I realised it fucking died, cus now the cable literally does not work. So whatever was in that circle, literally fried or some shit.
Just to clarify, 0.5cm after starting to unplug, not about to finish unplugging.
>Just to clarify, 0.5cm after starting to unplug, not about to finish unplugging.
Literally what?
Yeah, you've probably got a short in the wire that you tore out like a barbarian, so congrats on that. Depending on construction, it'll have been completely fried or it'll keep thinking that it's the only cord "charging" so you'll get little or no output on the others.
I think the factory that mass produced those things would be genuinely impressed with how stupid you are. They aren't built to last, and somehow you decided that it's short lifespan wasn't short enough.
You've gotta crack it open and remove the rest of the wire if there's even a chance to fix your little garbage plastic trinket.
Doesn't matter. If it was turned on, you've at best potentially given up a lot of your hardware identifiers, and at worst you've had all your traffic while there captured and have been completely and totally pwned.
If you're the kind of retard who doesn't know how to check data lines without a knife, and the kind of schizo just paranoid enough to do so with a knife, I'd recommend a wipe, a shred, and a new phone.
Then, until you do any modicum of cursory research, stay the hell away from things you don't understand if they scare you this much.
>paranoid retard thinks a company allowed at a cybersec event is going to plant malware in a charging cable
>tears it apart and finds it's just a charging cable, no data
>ends up bricking everything involved
This is why everyone tells you shitbags to take your meds.
>China trying to kill us
>Source: Reddit told me the cheap thing given to me for free was cheap
>Methods Used in Study: Knife, hot glue, monkey senses, and giving it a good eyeballing
>Conclusion: Product looks to function as advertised, but I don't trust it still unless I dissect it completely. More monkeys with bigger rocks potentially required for further analysis.
You can use things other than a knife to check the data lines, even if the connector pads are still there... which they weren't...
A Google will answer "how to read nfc chips" instantly, which is literally what you're asking for since you don't want to crack it open. If there is an NFC chip, what exactly do you think it's going to do?
Better yet, explain to me what you think an NFC chip IS in the first place, since you clearly just found out about their existence through reddit.
IF there is one, and that's still a big if, my money would be on it functioning as a business card or an advertisement, so good luck with that adventure.
Also, little charging adaptors with the data pads removed are cheap af, then you can just avoid ever looking like a crackhead in the first place while using any rando cord/powerbrick you please.
what was the point of this post? to tell us about a cheap charging cable? did you think you were ethan hunt or something?
>the charging cable doesn't have data lines
>therefore, THE CCP IS TRYING TO KILL ME
least insane american
>cut cable open
>not just test terminals
Is no one gonna mention the fact that OP's hand is brown
What have you been doing, digging around in pig shit? Why is your hand that weird color jfc
It's the lighting, I'm white
Just set your phone to only charge are you retarded?
Never said I plugged it in my phone
Yeah, you've plugged it into your Bluetooth headphones, which is arguably worse if you remotely give a shit about security.
This is either bait or a child. Either way, I can't take this thread seriously anymore.
Not OP, here.
Never bothered with that setting.
Does charge only also ignore HIDs?
>get cable
>they say it's charging only
>cut it open
>it's charging only
>THEY'RE TRYNA KILL ME
Later, OP posted that it fried AFTER they themselves cut a wire and hot glued the hole.
>I hacked at device with my penis knife to make sure it did what it said.
>It did what it said, glue time.
>Maybe it has a spy NFC chip, how read anons?
>I broke the free device intentionally, how could China be so evil and try to murder me with the live wire I created that didn't so much as fizzle?
Kek, this made my day.
Pretty sure anon said it died before he fully unplugged when it was charging his earphones before cutting off the lightning cable.
He said the pretty light went out when he started to unplug it. He only just realized it's dead-dead after doing field surgery on it.
Hard to tell if that's when it happened, or if it was later. Especially since devices turning off are, oddly enough, a symptom of them being unplugged.
It's clear we're dealing with a retard, so I'm leaning towards a penis-knife related short caused by a floating live wire.
I also posit that the wire was cut just at some spot on the mid-point or near the base of the hub, prior to being flayed by our Texas Chainsaw Hackerman here, rather than being actually removed competed from the board.
He can't get into the super-plastic developed by the craftiest Chinese spy-device factory in existence, no matter how much he bangs rocks on it and prys with his penis-knife, so whatever wire is in that housing is still hanging out covered in an unknown amount of superglue.
It wouldn't be a surprise if the free landfill-bound dongle given to our spooked protagonist shit the bed on the first use, but just assessing the situation, I'm leaning towards user error and the mutilation.
awww yisss, muhfugging schizo thread
The purpose of the wire is probably for third party acquisition in consoomer charging blocks or something. Business moves. They gave you a prototype and you cut it up and shorted your shit when you plugged it in. I will have a good laugh throughout the day at OP who needed to cut the wire to check for NFCs like a genuine schizophrenic.
There were taobao cables withalware on them. You did well. But what is stopping western companies with poor qc to sell the malware cables unknowingly?
>get a charging cable for FREE
>cut it open
>it's a charging cable
>Chyna tryna kill us
The fucking state of OP
>>goes to a cybersecurity event
>be paranoid
>did I make the right call by cutting off the cable
Basterd bitch
OP
IS
A
FUCKING
RETARD
>china is trying to kill me
>they gave me a normal charging cable, and I confirmed that it's a normal charging cable, but uh... they're totally trying to kill me somehow
Literally take meds.
very nice thread op
Sooo by your own admission you found nothing wrong with it, and the device generously given to you for free was exactly as the person who gave it to you described it
And yet you still title your thread "China tryna kill us"
Holy shit Americans are trash. I cannot WAIT for the moment everyone knows is coming where America suffers some kind of major non-nuclear military humiliation and everyone's dwindling respect for them completely vanishes
Former employer gave things like this out at trade shows.
USB on one end, micro USB, thunderbolt, mini USB on other end.
> all were charge only
> no data
Perfect for use when you don't trust the host USB port
> like in an airplane
> or hotel room
> or airport public USB port
But OP should shove the cable up his ass, just to make sure.
I'm fucking dying OP is so retarded ahahagaha
>Be me
>Think computers are neat
>Go to computer event
>Get multi-tool
>It is penis length, nice
>Get charging cord
>Chinese security company means evil
>Reddit says cable is cheap
>There was a reason I was given this knife, the voices say it is so
>This is a test, I'm going to solve the riddle and claim my prize atop the Computer-Knower Throne
>I've been dissecting this in the parking lot for a hour
>Maybe LULZ will know where they're hiding the secret malware
>"Can NFC do big hack on me, LULZ? How do I open it up to look at the hacks? Can I into NFC with knife?"
>"I broke my toy, what do?"
>Into the trash with you now. Straight to landfill.
>Another day saved from evil Chinese plastic hacks
>They're still hiding out there somewhere, luckily I'm armed with this divine multi-tool. I'll find the hacks if I have to cut open everything, it's my destiny.
kek
I dont believe people this stupid exist. Great thread anyway
Top kek
Nice
He doesnt even know lightning cable needs a hidden chip in the port, making such measurements useless
DIVINE MULTI TOOL DOESNT CUT IT, THE SLEEPER AGENT FRIEND SAID IT HAS NFC, WONT SHOW ME! HAHAHAHAHA
You're a dumb cunt.
This is the funniest thing I've read today and it's not even that crazy. But seriously, there is malware in stuff like the gpu fan control software that everyone uses even from trusted manufacturers and this guy is taking apart USB hubs.
The future is insane.
>Sophos
u dun goofed
>cybersec event
OP is a fat neck beard fuck or tranny
Youre just racist against China. Id rather accept a gift from CCP than NSA
You don’t have one of these? Noob
This is the one thing I'll accept as a critic. Yes, you're right this entire situation could've been solved if I had one of these. Wouldn't have needed to cut open the cable (despite it missing literally 2 pins, so I'm alr fishy of it) and wouldn't have needed to post this thread. Weirdly enough I've never seen these in computer stores or centres. I'll probs get one later today for future cable usage from unknown/chinese sources.
OP is a schizo dumb ass who taught somebody planted malware in his fucking charging cable and end up fucking up the cable
/end of thread
Facts
OP Here with a final update, I gave it to a friend who disassembled it to go look for the NFC Tag, he said it was poorly made and did in fact have an NFC Tag, I asked him if I could have it back to show you guys but by that time he already threw it in the trash, oh well.
At least now I know I wasn't schizo.
extremely real and true
Dumb schizoid cunt.
I've seen alot of bad lies and really believable lies then really bad "truths" and really good truths backed up by heaps of evidence, I know LULZ is basically "Pics or it didn't happen" but considering this guy was crazy enough to cut open a wire like that and somehow short whatever was in that circle before he even cut the damn wire at this point I'm considering this to be "so crazy it's actually true"
This does not seem like a lie, if someone asked me to look at their broken shit just to clarify something I'd chuck it away too I wouldn't want garbage filling up my store.
Idk if OP is still reading this but for the future...please get a data blocking USB, get an NFC detector app if you're gonna be suspicious about a freebie from some Chinese cybersecurity company.
I highly doubt cybersecurity events would allow companies to bring malicious stuff to be distributed as freebies but considering I had shit happen to me with Chinese products I would be SOMEWHAT suspicious about a freebie like that. But not to the point of doing... "that".
This thread gave me the laugh of a lifetime, whether your were serious or joking, thanks for the laughs OP.
>worrying about the cable
>not worrying about the bug hacing device hidden inside the circle part
the cable was just a misdirect, the circle part has penetrated your wifi network and uploaded all ur dick pics to chinese servers
>all this high tech stuff from China, yet their toilets don't come with toilet roll