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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by ms013 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:52PM (#12257971)
They epoxied the USB ports on my secure machine when I worked at one of the national labs about 12 years ago. One day I came in and the admin had gone through everyone's office the evening before with a bunch of JB weld to fill the USB ports.

So, whether or not you believe that it is a useful solution, it certainly did happen. As for alternatives to gluing, I assume that was time related: filling in a port is certainly faster than opening thousands of machines to give them a physical port-ectomy.

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Re:Researchers crack open malware that hid for 5 years by woliveirajr on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:36PM (#12259364)
Port-ectomy: a new word in my dictionary, must remember to use it someday!
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