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by tptacek 5460 days ago
We're not talking about Firewire, we're talking about USB. I don't even think we need to get into IOMMU mitigations for Firewire security.

There are vectors beyond "autorun" for attacking machines with USB devices (for instance, automatically mounting filesystems exposes the filesystem to malicious block inputs) but these are squarely in the OS's bailiwick.