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 lengthy discussion can be found here: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/09/4 Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393612 Title: Protect against BadUSB device To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1393612/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
