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"Please press this key sequence, then type your password, on the newly attached keyboard to enable it for use."
by 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.