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If you're going through the trouble of epoxying USB ports, you could probably epoxy the mouse to its port as well. Or just monitor connected USB devices and sh
by Lionsion 8y ago
If you're going through the trouble of epoxying USB ports, you could probably epoxy the mouse to its port as well.
Or just monitor connected USB devices and shutdown if something unapproved is installed, a la USBKill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USBKill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USBKill
- TeMPOraL 8y agoIf mouse is epoxied - cut the cable, cut and splice in a male->female cable, connect your device.
- chrischen 8y agoI think they are trying to discourage accidental use of/the urge to use the USB ports.
- floatingatoll 8y agoDoing so would trigger a USB disconnection event, which under a sufficiently paranoid ecosystem would immediately terminate the entire enclosure and lock the door and call security.
- AstralStorm 8y agoEpoxy is a pain, just use a sticky connector envelope instead. USB disconnect disabling whole USB host is trivial to code. You would disable on disconnect instead of whitelisting as there can be USB host bugs. Add a boot password so that only admin can start the machine... Plus the are solutions where drivers are also put in a VM to further reduce attack surface.