Control: tag -1 upstream

On Thu, 2017-10-12 at 12:14 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: usbip
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Some tools (like Gnuk) offer USB device emulation, exported to the host
> for testing via usbip.
> 
> However, when using usbip in this way, any local user account with
> packet-sniffing privilege (e.g. members of group "wireshark" in a common
> debian convention) get access to the traffic over the USB port.
> 
> It would be great to enable usbip-style device exposure over a
> SOCK_STREAM unix-domain socket as well as a TCP-based socket, since this
> would make it possible to provide emulated USB devices without routing
> traffic through the networking stack.

Please discuss this with the upstream maintainers:

M:      Valentina Manea <[email protected]>
M:      Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
M:      Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
L:      [email protected]

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. - Lily
Tomlin

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