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by Ajedi32 11 days ago
The ability to "type words" is worse than all of that. Just type Win+R, "cmd", Enter and you've got arbitrary code execution on the connected PC. I think that was GP's point. Any competent security team would be aware of such risks.
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Couple decades ago a product team of our product, the team consisting of PMs, senior engineers, etc., dismissed a security issue as a not serious because notepad.exe - which the PoC used to show arbitrary command execution - supposedly can't do much damage.