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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 4 days ago by mp3@lemmy.ca to c/cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

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[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (1 child)

different flaw in Lenovo’s TSD303 external SSD. Its data actually was encrypted, but the drive sent the correct password back over USB in plain text for the software to compare,

Are we doing client side verification again already? I thought we had just remembered not to do it recently.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Remembering stuff is for losers. Just go all-in, and hope you've switched jobs before it all comes apart.

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