Investigating an "Evil" RJ45 Dongle
https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/investigating-an-evil-rj45-dongle"If you want to try it, be aware that it requires Intel Pentium 166MHz or above."
Made me laugh. Fun article, also really love the genre of "bored smart person goes too deep on something that the end result is obvious by common sense but proving it requires surprising amount of ingenuity and scrappiness"
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RJ45 nazi here: these should be called 8P8C
I’ll show myself out
Related:
Cheap rj45 ethernet to USB adapter contains malware
Are there "evil" USB ethernet dongles? Of course there are...(just not this one)
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Not to mention the evil ethernet patch cable:
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TLDR: it is not "evil"
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