[Cryptography] USB firewall/condom HW/SW

[Henry Baker]

FYI --

https://github.com/robertfisk/USG/wiki

The USG is a firewall for your USB ports.  It connects between your computer and an untrusted USB device, isolating the badness with an internal hardware firewall.

Why should I use a USG?

Say you just bought yourself a shiny new USB flash drive.  You rip it out of the packaging and plug it straight into your computer.  Oops, big mistake!

* Do you know who developed your flash drive's firmware?  (It's probably not the company name printed on the packaging)

* Has the firmware been audited for backdoors and malicious functionality?

* Can you confirm that the firmware running on your drive hasn't been maliciously modified during or after manufacture?

If you can't answer 'yes' to all these questions, you should not trust that shiny new flash drive.  Plugging it in gives full control of your computer to whoever wrote your drives' firmware.

The USG isolates BadUSB devices from your computer, while still passing through the data you need.  The USG's firmware is fully open and auditable, so you can trust it.  And when you use a USG, you no longer have to trust the opaque firmware of dubious origin running on every USB device you own.

Get your own USG now

Order your own USG v1.0 hardware by contacting the developer (globotron at fastmail.com).  Pricing is NZ$80 each (approx US$60) plus shipping to your country of choice.  Each device will ship fully tested and pre-loaded with the latest firmware.
---
Any thoughts?