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You could require confirmation before accepting a new input device. This could be done with out of band signaling (such as a button on the computer itself that
by mikeash 7y ago
You could require confirmation before accepting a new input device. This could be done with out of band signaling (such as a button on the computer itself that you push to say “yes, I want to use this keyboard”) or you could do it by requiring the user to type in a secret (such as their login password, or even just a PIN displayed on the screen) to enable it for other uses.
I don’t know that people would accept this inconvenience, though.
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- dijit 7y ago> or you could do it by requiring the user to type in a secret how would you accomplish this given that the normal situation is that you're plugging in a keyboard?
- codezero 7y agoI think the implication is you can type on the plugged in keyboard, but the OS won't pass the input through unless the first thing typed is a secret. This is somewhat similar to how bluetooth keyboards are enabled on macOS (or were the last time I connected one).
- mikeash 7y agoPrecisely. You get some authorization box and your input only goes to that box. If you authorize, it then acts like a normal keyboard.