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You wish to build your own USB condom because you want to be absolutely, 100% sure it's built without any kind of backdoor and you don't trust anyone else to do this for you?

Because otherwise you can just get one at e.g. http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms

I have had one for years (a no-name one, not the one I linked)



No, the one you linked to is just charge-only.

I wish to build - or I wish someone would build - a USB condom that passes through USB stick drives, by reading files on one side, and emulating a filesystem on the other.

It's not because I want to be 100% there is no backdoor. Rather I want a minimum of safety when I have to access a USB stick given to me by a stranger.

(Speaking of building your own, simple power-only USB condoms - like you linked to - are actually pretty easy to make. They have been used to teach (SMD) soldering at CCC events, hackerspaces and the like.)




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