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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by liveoneggs on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:22PM (#19610809)
this is how they've always worked. How else should a barcode be entered by a scanner?
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Re:No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug... by hopler on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:27PM (#19611193)
The driver could read data from the device and clamp the results to a reasonable number of non control code characters.
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