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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by agumonkey on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:43AM (#24018248)
Anecdote:

working at a court room I was bemused by the security talks about usb keys, yet the OS setup still allows usb driver installs automatically (granted their local presence). I know because I brought a keyboard to replace the busted one they had in-house and windows gladly set up everything plug`n`play.

I wonder if OSes have actual rules for this, and if there are secure corporate usb keys

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by ozim on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:14AM (#24018709)
You know you can create USB device filters in Windows so it will not allow unknown device to be installed. But sysadmin has to know about it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...

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Re:Tampa teen accused of being ‘mastermind’ behind Twitter hack by agumonkey on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:36AM (#24018798)
Apparently these were not since I could also see my smartphone being registered as a new MTP endpoint (and could exchange files).

thanks for the tip

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