You and your parent clearly shows the current boring, uninspiring state of HN community. Well done.
Now, where is the predictible sandboxing guy to counter your predictible "security implications" argument?
Sort of agree, but the "well done" part in your reply also represent a sad aspect of HN, in my view
Yes, you're right. Can't edit it out, sorry.
I'm worried that the potential employer infects the card, uses it to take over their competitor personal computer network and appends: "Don't forget! The S in IoT stands for Security!" to all of their documents and audio files. Then the traffic lights after we colonize mars will be like "It is safe to cross. Don't forget!..." and some ATM on the moon will be like "Thanks for using the bank of the moon. Don't forget!..."
> It has a USB port in the corner. If you plug it into a computer, it boots in about 6 seconds and shows up over USB as a flash drive and a virtual serial port that you can use to log into the card's shell.
The parent of this thread has a valid point here and the insecurity implications of this is nefarious if one isn't careful.
While it is a technically cool fun project, I can imagine a bad actor taking this to DEFCON/CCC or even a tech-centric concert and mass producing this to emulate a USB drive, but is also a keylogger or a remote access tool of some sort which reminds me of the nightmares of BadUSB.