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What, it doesn't run Linux [1] ?

[1] https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...

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Ah, good old 2019. A time when micros were still throw-away trinkets, not a rarity with a 80 week factory lead time.

>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.

No way I'm plugging a business card into my computer.

Well, it does kind of have the name and contact info of the guy on the card. If something goes wrong you know where to find him and hit him with a wrench.

Unless the attacker is using a false flag operation...

Imagine if the card said Elon Musk, or for a proper tech hero, Steve Wozniak.

I suppose that's true, but having it say that would be obviously fake. If you forge the details just slightly so that it's believable it would I guess work as an attack. Daily reminder to myself that there's no faith to be had in humanity.

Now now, you did click on a URL from an unknown host, didn't you ?

Or be a midi keyboard: https://mitxela.com/projects/stylocard

The USB flash drive was neat but the embedded MIDI keyboard is pretty impressive!

Haha I remember this post, really cool stuff! When I clicked on this, I imagined it was going in the same direction, but unfortunately this card is only for aesthetics. It’s still really cool!

Most large companies don't allow arbitrary USB drives to be inserted into computers, let alone some guy's business card.

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