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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393612
Title:
Protect against BadUSB device
Status
Sadly, the solution is not easy nor obvious. Ubuntu is used in a wide
variety of different ways and many of them do not lend themselves well
to just popping up a dialog box.
Furthermore, the problem is not at all restricted to just devices that
can be reprogrammed to act like keyboards.
A fairly
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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Status: New = Confirmed
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@ Seth Arnold: Thanks for your comment. In the case of an USB device
acting as a keyboard and for multi-seat machines or remote servers, the
keyboard should simply not be activated (what for?). This security
measure can also be an option available in Security Privacy. I agree
that Ubuntu and
Removing package for now, as it's not at all clear how to design this
(at least udev is way too low in the stack to even potentially ask the
user anything).
I'm very sceptical of these approaches. Experience shows that popping up
dialog boxes with security related questions à la are you sure that
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