Recently a video surfaced from someone claiming that certain USB-to-Ethernet dongles contained ‘malware’ among other big claims. Basically these dongles were said to be designed by Chin…
  • catloaf@lemm.ee
    3·
    17 hours ago

    Both chips have an external SPI Flash option, which is used with the USB side to present a ‘virtual CD drive’ to the user when the dongle is plugged in.

    Ah, the bad old days of device drivers. I don’t miss them at all.