Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S...
by Bedon292 on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:57PM
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Definitely possible, nothing is perfect. Just Lots of things that make it harder, but not impossible, to do bad stuff. Some places still use PS/2 devices for those peripherals as well, though that's much less common these days.
Was curious, looks like there are a lot of pass through USB keyloggers that probably show up like the original whitelisted device. So definitely a risk there. I know I would want every single device there manually looked over, but I don't know how long that would take with a likely pretty limited staff.
Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S...
by nine_k on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:17AM
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I'm afraid that simply discarding all these devices and replacing them with new devices instead of inspection will be not just safer, but also cheaper.
Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S...
by pkrznaric on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:30PM
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At my old job, even if you plugged a generic keyboard that you'd already been using with the computer into the wrong USB port it wouldn't work. I believe you can set this stuff all up to be looking for very specific pieces of hardware on specific USB ports.
Question though... Don't hardware-based keyloggers present as a "keyboard", and isn't that a generic device which would probably be whitelisted?