safe way to attach a possibly malware loaded USB device?
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Nov 9 12:51:59 UTC 2020
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:
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> > 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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> > Thanks.
> >
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