{"id":1168,"date":"2018-07-05T14:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2018-07-05T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T06:07:43","slug":"suspicious-usb-fan-given-out-at-trump-kim-summit-deemed-safe-zdnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/suspicious-usb-fan-given-out-at-trump-kim-summit-deemed-safe-zdnet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Suspicious&#8217; USB fan given out at Trump-Kim summit deemed safe | ZDNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much ado about nothing. The context was, some journalists were highly suspicious of the USB fan that was included in the goody bag for the media during the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, deeming it a cybersecurity risk. It&#8217;s probably good not to plug <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/07\/this-thumbdrive-hacks-computers-badusb-exploit-makes-devices-turn-evil\/\">untrusted USB devices<\/a> into your machine but c&#8217;mon please give the organizers more credit than this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/usb-fan-given-out-at-trump-kim-summit-deemed-safe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/5b1f1dbf2200004500eeb275.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A University of Cambridge researcher wanted to know if the fan was bugged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/usb-fan-given-out-at-trump-kim-summit-deemed-safe\/\">&#8216;Suspicious&#8217; USB fan given out at Trump-Kim summit deemed safe | ZDNet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much ado about nothing. The context was, some journalists were highly suspicious of the USB fan that was included in the goody bag for the media during the Trump-Kim summit in Singapore, deeming it a cybersecurity risk. It&#8217;s probably good not to plug untrusted USB devices into your machine but c&#8217;mon please give the organizers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}