safe way to attach a possibly malware loaded USB device?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 9 Nov 2020 07:25:01 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 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?

Probably the same way a CD/DVD can, using the Autorun "feature" of MS-Windows
(and MacOSX?). (Should not be an issue with Linux, unless some bright bulb 
implemented Autorun under Linux.)

> 
> Colin
> 
> 
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