Did inserting the Huawei E353 dongle attach a virtual CD-ROM drive that you manually installed drivers from? I know for a fact similar devices (eg, ZTE MF910) o

Did inserting the Huawei E353 dongle attach a virtual CD-ROM drive that you manually installed drivers from? I know for a fact similar devices (eg, ZTE MF910) offer drivers this way. In my experience with such devices, the USB drivers that are built into Linux works fine (just like Android USB tethering), so there isn't any need to run the Huawei or ZTE driver installation. It's worth mentioning these USB On-The-Go devices (including Android phones and 4G modems) have relatively powerful processors and run a wide variety of network services, including a web server that will never receive security patches (for the end-user web configuration interface), have your high-precision location information. The devices have a high bandwidth internet side-channel (the 4G connection itself) while also having the ability to act as any USB client device (including keyboards to send keystrokes to your computer to eg, open a command prompt and run software). They are incredibly powerful platforms for targeted cyberattacks and I imagine state actors are using them very often.