Does anyone have fake flash drives?

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 14:50:57 UTC 2015


Hi all,

I've added some initial functionality to gnome-multi-writer yesterday
to detect fake flash drives. If anyone has any USB storage drives that
they know misreport their true capacity, or that they suspect might be
counterfeit, I'd appreciate some testing of a new command line tool.

See http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2015/01/28/detecting-fake-flash/ for details.

If it works, I'll probably move the code down into udisks so that it
can be used from gnome-disks as well, but I'm hesitant to do that
until I've had more people test it. Thanks,

Richard.


More information about the users mailing list