Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug...
by flukus on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:15PM
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> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system.
Universal plug'n'play is USB's reason for existence, if it can't do that then maybe we should step away from USB itself. Back when keyboards were plugged into PS/2 ports I didn't have to worry a floppy disk would emulate one (ignoring autorun). I'm sure it's possible to have a malicious PS/2 device, but having it plug into the keyboard port would at least indicate what it's going to do.
Universal plug'n'play is USB's reason for existence, if it can't do that then maybe we should step away from USB itself. Back when keyboards were plugged into PS/2 ports I didn't have to worry a floppy disk would emulate one (ignoring autorun). I'm sure it's possible to have a malicious PS/2 device, but having it plug into the keyboard port would at least indicate what it's going to do.