safe way to attach a possibly malware loaded USB device?

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020, 23:21 Mike Marchywka, <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I just got another piece of USB hardware and don't have any real reason to
> be suspicious
> but I was curious if there is a USB "Safe mode" to prevent a device from
> acting
> in a malicious way.  I guess the universal nature allows a given device to
> pretend
> to be just about anything and not sure of what it could eventually do with
> malicious code.
>


For my education, can you provide an example of how plugging in a device
can cause harm?

Colin




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