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 :)

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Best regards,
Tormod
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