Collaborate Disseminate
There are lots of mechanical keyboards out on the market now. When you buy one from a known name it’s likely there’s nothing nefarious going on. But no name peripherals have flooded the market. Cheap keyboards that offer many features at a… Continue reading Can a computer peripheral (keyboard) be more sophisticated than meets the eye and steal data? [duplicate]
We’ve all been there. You’ve cooked up some little microcontroller project, but you need to unhook it from your dev PC and go mobile. There’s just one problem — you …read more Continue reading A Simple Hack For Running Low-Power Gear From a USB Battery Pack
I was under the impression that an antivirus for Linux makes sense only for installing in business computers. Checking Norton/BitDefender/Karpesky I don’t see any Linux option for the first or any non business specific solution for the oth… Continue reading Is an antivirus needed for linux home usage when there is exchange of files with other OS e.g. Windows?
Due to certain circumstances, we are forced to keep some copyrighted data in an external hard disk. due to privacy concerns, we want to allow this data to be accessed only from a trusted/office provided device. if this external disk is con… Continue reading Protect the content of External Disk/USB Storage
If we buy for instance a laptop with an OS pre-installed e.g. Ubuntu and but the original seller was not reputable and there are doubts with the preinstall.
My question is: if we use the laptop to download Ubuntu and create a USB bootable … Continue reading Creating bootable USB from a compromised OS. Is it safe?
If we buy for instance a laptop with an OS pre-installed e.g. Ubuntu and but the original seller was not reputable and there are doubts with the preinstall.
My question is: if we use the laptop to download Ubuntu and create a USB bootable … Continue reading Creating bootable USB from a compromised OS. Is it safe?
Ever wondered why your Arduino wasn’t programming, only to find out that the cable doesn’t have any data conductors? Worry not, [Spencer Maroukis] has got you covered with the USB …read more Continue reading Eliminate That Pesky Power-Only USB Cable With This Cable Tester
Over the last five years or so there has been a quiet take-over of the ports on laptops, phones, and other devices, as a variety of older ports as well …read more Continue reading A Basic USB-C Primer
USB-C is one of those things that generally everyone seems to agree on that it is a ‘good thing’, but is it really? In this first part of a series …read more Continue reading Getting Started With USB-C And Common Pitfalls With Charging And Data Transfer
Even for those of us who are fans of retrocomputing, it’s fair to say that not everyone plays their old-school games on real old-school hardware. The originals are now fragile …read more Continue reading Arduino Provides No Fuss SNES-To-USB Conversion