Does anyone have fake flash drives?

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 15:40:46 UTC 2015


On 28.01.2015 15:50, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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.
> 


<p>If you&#8217;ve got access to gnome-multi-writer from git (either from jhbuild, or from <a />my repo</a>) then please could you try this:</p>

"my repo" is actually what?



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