Wanted: Source of fake USB flash drives

[exe]

And why they took all the history from 1999 (which was long ago and nothing to do with current state of the project)?

To show how things changed over time? What improves and what becomes patched crap impossible to maintain?

Like, why they chose debian kernel

They compared multiple OS, including Red Hat and others. Debian just turned out to be the worst.

Ah, I found the original article. they took all the packages from OS, that's how they counted number of vulnerabilities. Here are those 1k2 vulns in "debian": https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-23/year-2018/Debian.html . As you can see, they count every package in debian, which is noncense. Any other distro will be better just because they have less software (and may be more security features).

Also, it was for 2018. In 2019 the number of vulnerabilities is four times less. So, why in 2020 we take data from 2018 and not from 2019 to judge security of a product?

update: removed bold text, and made the post less offensive . sorry friends, this topic triggered me.

[CatalinaWOW]

I actually purchased a couple of the "2TB" drives as a lark.  So far can't say what the capacity is because they are incredibly slow.  But they do seem to hold at least 400 Gbyte.  I don't have the knowledge to identify what is inside to know if there is any chance the capacity is real so I am not going to do a teardown.  They will probably just go into the trash as a you get what you pay for lesson.  The case is actually nice enough I might put a worthwhile drive into it.

Define "hold". You can write files there and all will appear fine. The problem is reading them back. They usually will even read but will contain a few GB of data which you wrote last.

There may be something like you describe going on, but a random sampling of photos and mp3s seems to show far more than a few Gb stored.  There are data errors though so your mechanism may be right to some extent.  The error rate was low enough that I just ascribed it to low quality data cells.  Again the slow speed was my main issue.  Writing 400Gb of data took over a day. Read back similarly slow.

[rdl]

https://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-linux-was-the-most-vulnerable-operating-system-in-the-last-20-years-529387.shtml

As for 2019 alone, Android is the number one in the charts with 414 vulnerabilities, followed by Debian Linux, Windows Server 2106, and Windows 10, with 360, 357, and 357 security issues.

Doesn't seem like enough difference to worry about. Well, except maybe Android.

[wraper]

There may be something like you describe going on, but a random sampling of photos and mp3s seems to show far more than a few Gb stored.  There are data errors though so your mechanism may be right to some extent.  The error rate was low enough that I just ascribed it to low quality data cells.  Again the slow speed was my main issue.  Writing 400Gb of data took over a day. Read back similarly slow.

Small files may be misleading, especially if you don't know what they should actually contain. Copy some 30GB video and when playing you likely will see ending portion of it repeating again and again.

[GlennSprigg]

Just buy some ridiculously high capacity at ridiculously low price. 100% guarantee to have fake capacity.

That's pretty much what I was thinking too.

Oddly enough if you "fail" and it happens to actually be legit, then it's still a win! 

Just found this one:

https://www.amazon.ca/1TB-USB-2-0-Flash-Drive/dp/B081N3MLKR/ref=sr_1_1

There is also a bunch of flash drives that are under a dollar if you just do a search for flash drive an dsort by price.  It's actually kinda odd.  Most are low capacity like 128MB, I don't know how they are profiting off that even if it is fakes.   I guess they profit off the shipping price as some want like $20 shipping.

Yea, the cheaper the better for me too.  My missus & her family/friends are into computerized embroidery machines big time. (I generally do their design work). All their machines take a USB stick. Each file is only about 25kb, and the machines only accept about 100 files on each. That's only a max of about 2.5meg for each stick!! (They use hundreds of sticks). So the cheapest crappy ones will do!!