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Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by mmh0000 on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:04PM (#33157437)
For those wondering, there is an easy defense against this on Linux, USBGuard (https://usbguard.github.io/)

RHEL7+ include USBGuard as part of the standard repo [0]

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

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Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by jimrandomh on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @03:54PM (#33168428)
This isn't very practical as a defense. You can't configure it to ban keyboards, because you still need a keyboard, and you might need to swap keyboards if your original one breaks.
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Re:The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 by mmh0000 on Friday October 14, 2022 @04:44PM (#33208608)
That's not correct, it can block and does block USB keyboards. If your main keyboard was totally dead and you needed to whilelist a replacement keyboard you'd do so by booting into single-user mode.
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