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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by na85 on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:15PM (#19610094)
Hasn't the security by obscurity myth been debunked, and furthermore hasn't government proven itself utterly incompetent at designing products?
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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by RandomTisk on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:32PM (#19611229)
I'm not sure I would classify it as such, it's more of an attack surface reduction, assuming we're only talking about the physical form factor.
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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by Godel_unicode on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:30PM (#19610856)
> incompetent at designing products?

You mean like SELinux? Or SE Android? Or the STIGs?

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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by samstave on Monday April 08, 2019 @07:40PM (#19610247)
Thats not really what I meant.

I am just saying that they should have a pre usb meter that prevents the usb stick from being attached to a device directly such that they can screen it off ...

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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by hopler on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:32PM (#19611226)
Defense in depth has not been debunked.
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