Question re: Automating Boot Options
I sent the following to Anthony, but thought you all may have some ideas too:
I’m being targeted by someone and have had several of my devices installed with malicious code that I was able to discover only because the code was not intended to run on my OS and, thus, gave up multiple errors showing it existed. I’m not a criminal or anything. But I do want to set a trap using ABAN. Specifically, I would like to create a USB drive which, from all perspectives, is a disk image of my personal computer (Mac). In reality, it contains ABAN, or something like it.
There are two hurdles:
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I have to get them to boot from the drive, not just mount it. I see a way of accomplishing this.
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ABAN loads to a splash screen with options. That’s the bigger issue.
Is there a way to copy ABAN to a USB so that it runs with flags telling it to ignore the presence of a keyboard, not to display a splash screen/boot menu, and to run non-failsafe mode automatically and without interaction? That is, if its in their USB drive and they boot their machine, its fried?
I know this is a dangerous prospect, regardless of intent in using it. But throw enough warnings up, and if not already possible, I think it would be a great feature.
Thanks