Timeline for Do external harddrives keep track of the computers they're plugged in to?
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| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:43 | vote | accept | jibarron64 | ||
| Mar 6, 2021 at 19:08 | comment | added | user163495 | To my knowledge, they won't. Plugging a file into any OS I've ever encountered aside from RSOS didn't alter the file hash | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 18:12 | answer | added | yeet | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 16:19 | comment | added | jibarron64 | @MechMK1 This is very interesting -- but, should I interpret it as saying that typical operating systems will not do that? (Only North Korean ones?) | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/1368214803311919105 | ||
| Mar 6, 2021 at 14:49 | comment | added | user163495 | Not necessarily, but certain operating systems append a unique identifier to every accessed file, so that they can track how information spreads. | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 10:52 | answer | added | knowsshit | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 6, 2021 at 5:56 | comment | added | Steffen Ullrich | I don't think that there is even a way for hard drives to get these information, i.e. actively detect what device they are connected to. But drives store information about power cycles etc, so if all you want to know how much the drive was used before you can look at these S.M.A.R.T information using a variety of tools. | |
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| Mar 6, 2021 at 1:21 | history | asked | jibarron64 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |