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Stick Destroyer

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April 01, 2014
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Stick Destroyer

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John Jarvis

April 01, 2014
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  1. At work documents and credentials are sometimes being passed around

    using thumbdrives. A liability for sensitive data, a security threat for credentials!
  2. STICK DESTROYER Step 1 - Insert a USB stick Step

    2 - Wait for the blue light Shreds, repartitions and formats whatever block device it sees on the USB port.* * don't use the raspberry pi to charge your phone
  3. Security and Flash Drives • The only way to *securely*

    wipe a thumbdrive is to smash it with a hammer • Flash drives have a limited number of writes • Writing over every sector is not really secure but will remove the majority of the data..
  4. Do you have a Raspberry Pi and want to destroy

    block devices? • For the udev rules and python script that calls shred on the block device - http://github.com/jarv/stick-destroyer • You will need – 1 Raspberry Pi – 1 LED – 1 Resistor