> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system. Universal plug'n'play is USB's reas

> It's a severe discredit to the major operating system vendors that plugging in a USB stick can still compromise a system. Universal plug'n'play is USB's reason for existence, if it can't do that then maybe we should step away from USB itself. Back when keyboards were plugged into PS/2 ports I didn't have to worry a floppy disk would emulate one (ignoring autorun). I'm sure it's possible to have a malicious PS/2 device, but having it plug into the keyboard port would at least indicate what it's going to do.