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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by freehunter on Thursday October 02, 2014 @01:52PM (#8402037)
Until one day you see a hilarious Reddit post that makes you spit out your coffee and your keyboard stops working. Then you plug in a new one and have no way of making it work.
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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by makomk on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:18PM (#8402180)
Unplug the broken one first, so that when you plug the new one in the OS knows that it doesn't make sense to display a prompt because there's no keyboard to confirm it with? You'd probably want to do that anyway if you'd spilt coffee on it.
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Re:Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs by duaneb on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:23PM (#8402555)
Small price to pay for usb security. Also, if your only keyboard stops working, wouldn't it accept the next keyboard by default because there isn't one connected?
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