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>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.

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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 ?

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