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by 6c696e7578 266 days ago
I think the paranoia stems from the HID inserting winflag+r, powershell curl https... which installs keylogging software. It can do that after a 10 minute or so countdown timer so it might not seem immediately obvious, or might seem like part of a auto-update with powershell postinstall.
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The paranoia stems from this being a suspiciously cheap device that is meant to be ordered in bulk from China.