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Re:CIRCLean – USB key sanitizer by ckastner on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:05AM (#13866052)
Agreed, but in this specific case, CIRCLean depends on the keys being inserted before boot (see steps 2 - 4).
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Re:CIRCLean – USB key sanitizer by leni536 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:15AM (#13866090)
Oh, you are right, this can be bad. But I doubt that CIRCLean does any of the badUSB mitigations. They could fix all of these including the instructions. But that they copy unrecognised binaries ("Octet-stream" in their readme) without marking them dangerous is the most worrisome for me [1]. It seems to be useful only for office documents.

[1] https://github.com/CIRCL/Circlean

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Re:CIRCLean – USB key sanitizer by SteveClement on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:46AM (#13866195)
> They could fix all of these including the instructions.

Where "They" could be anyones pull-request

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