Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
arstechnica.com Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
Rejected chips, hidden microSD cards plague the USB stick market.
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Steve Gibson recently created a small utility to test USB drives to see if they work and actually give you the store space they claim.
11 0 ReplyAnything similar for Linux?
6 0 ReplyI'd like to know as well, hopefully, I'll get a notification for leaving this comment 😝
4 0 ReplyThere's F3. I've never used it but it looks decent. https://www.linuxbabe.com/command-line/f3-usb-capacity-fake-usb-test-linux
2 0 ReplyYes, there is one called F3 (Fight Flash Fraud).
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Man, I haven't visited GRC in forever! Glad to see they're still killing it...
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