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Seems like a recipe for severe headaches and cursing when devices fail while you're logged out and now you can't log in by just connecting a new keyboard.
by noobermin 5y ago
Seems like a recipe for severe headaches and cursing when devices fail while you're logged out and now you can't log in by just connecting a new keyboard.
- nitrogen 5y ago"Please press this key sequence, then type your password, on the newly attached keyboard to enable it for use."
- ivegotnoaccount 5y agoThen you will (probably) get malwares that open a window in fullscreen that imitates that prompt and sends data to a server. You probably could add some kind of fingerprint that allow identifying the legit prompts, but since it is not done with login screens...
- nitrogen 5y agoThis is why Windows used to ask for Ctrl-alt-del before login. And if you have malware already on your system, it's already too late.
- gregmac 5y agoAside from already having malware making this irrelevant, if you didn't just physically attach a new keyboard, the message about a new keyboard is also going to seem very suspicious.