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by pas 251 days ago
Are we still at the "Bill Gates got a BSoD during the demo of USB" level?

I know that at least on Linux mounting filesystems can lead to nasty things, so there's FUSE, but ... I have no idea what distros and desktop environments do by default. And then there's all the preview/thumbnail generators and metadata parsers, ...
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eru 251 days ago
One big problem with USB is that something might look like a storage device to the human eyes and hands, but it's actually a keyboard as far as the computer is concerned.

The U stands for Universal, and it's awfully convenient, but it contributes to the security nightmare.

A CD we can just passively read the bytes off, but if we want our keyboards to just work when we plug them in, then it's going to be harder to secure a supposedly dumb storage device.

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pas 251 days ago
Sure, and it can be any kinds of device, and ... it can trick the OS to loading strange drivers (with juicy vulnerabilities), but that's the point. How the fuck is this still the norm? (Despite user mode driver frameworks!?)
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