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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by jimrandomh on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:53PM (#19609915)
Yes, there are corner cases (another commenter mentioned a temperature sensor, and I this is also common among barcode scanners). These corner cases are not hard to work out; just prompt the user and require them to confirm that the device is, in fact, allowed to act like a keyboard.

(Which would mean you can still have malware-download-command-typers pretending to be barcode-scanners pretending to be keyboards, but you can't have malware-download-command-typers pretending to be storage devices pretending to be keyboards, because the "Allow typing with this keyboard?" dialog will give it away.)

Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by markaz on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:33PM (#19610208)
I would guess that 99% of users would click ok for "Allow typing with this keyboard?" when they plug in a USB storage device.
Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by gowld on Monday April 08, 2019 @08:22PM (#19610483)
I'd hope the Secret Service is in the 1%.