On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 6:02 PM Stuart Blake Tener wrote: > Use case 1 > > I recently came into some USB flash drives that I wish to change the vendor > id and product id on (they have bogus vendor id and product id numbers making > them un-writable). > > Use case 2 > > I would also like to be able to examine the firmware from a USB stick > (several years ago I was scammed on a USB stick I purchased that had a bogus > capacity and had to argue with PayPal to get my money back). So it is surely > not an unreasonable thing to wish to check a USB stick's firmware for that or > other security purposes (passive injection of code to impact BIOS or the OS). > > Can this utility perform any of the aforementioned enumerated activities when > used in a Linux environment? If not, any idea what would do so?
Dear Stuart, No, dfu-util can only work with devices that conform to the USB DFU standard. Typically USB sticks have no facility for reading out or modifying their firmware over USB. > > Mailing list question - can this email list be commanded to send daily or > weekly digests or should I expect a multitude of emails coming from > individuals replying to threads? No worries about multitudes of e-mails from this mailing list :) In any case, you can customize your subscription options at https://lists.osmocom.org/ Best regards, Tormod _______________________________________________ dfu-util mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
