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If the company officially used many laptops with USB-C ports, it would make sense to have a USB-C to HDMI in every room with a projector, rather than making eve

If the company officially used many laptops with USB-C ports, it would make sense to have a USB-C to HDMI in every room with a projector, rather than making everyone carry their own.

makeitdouble 5y ago
Yes. Transition periods are always painful in that respect, worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance. When the first full USB-C Macs went out they definitely were the odd ones out in the company, and even now there’s still that split between run of the mill windows laptops and macs. Adaptors are more common, but it’s still not great.
- lostmsu 5y ago
  > worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance This should not matter as long as they also have a fully functional USB-C (which I'd guess they do).
  - makeitdouble 5y ago
    It plays more on the "why don't you just ... ?" question that raises when you ask for adapters being standard in every room. It reminds me of asking to include decaffeinated pods in our recurring coffee orders for the espresso machine. The person had no opinion on coffee, but wasn't convinced they needed to accommodate for the minority that was concerned.
    - oneplane 5y ago
      Luckily, we could always make it worse; there were times where full-sized ports were thought of standard yet we had PCs and Macs with mini-versions that were specific to the manufacturer (like mini-composite, AV-jacks, mini-VGA, mini-DVI).
jusssi 5y ago
Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are in habit of using them, boom.
- iso1210 5y ago
  Yes, I'm sure you could make one which acted as a USB-HDMI converter as well as a rubber ducky. sprinkle a few around, maybe bribe a cleaner to leave one in a meeting room, and you're set.
  - oneplane 5y ago
    I think it's even easier than that; we now have cables that are normal shape and size of a USB connector that have an embedded system in them with a webserver, keyboard emulation, mass storage and wifi for a remote attacker to connect to. It's also easier to just ask to quickly use the worker's computer to get a presentation going. "Oh yeah sorry, my presentation is made in PowerShell instead of PowerPoint".
- oneplane 5y ago
  Yep. But so is a visitor dropping a bag of USB Mass Storage devices anywhere. Or a visitor with a proxmark grabber in his bag/suitcase.

If the company officially used many laptops with USB-C ports, it would make sense to have a USB-C to HDMI in every room with a projector, rather than making everyone carry their own.

makeitdouble 5y ago

Yes. Transition periods are always painful in that respect, worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance. When the first full USB-C Macs went out they definitely were the odd ones out in the company, and even now there’s still that split between run of the mill windows laptops and macs. Adaptors are more common, but it’s still not great.

lostmsu 5y ago
> worsened this time as a ton of “business” line windows laptops still have a HDMI port, same for Dell’s linux offering for instance This should not matter as long as they also have a fully functional USB-C (which I'd guess they do).
- makeitdouble 5y ago
  It plays more on the "why don't you just ... ?" question that raises when you ask for adapters being standard in every room. It reminds me of asking to include decaffeinated pods in our recurring coffee orders for the espresso machine. The person had no opinion on coffee, but wasn't convinced they needed to accommodate for the minority that was concerned.
  - oneplane 5y ago
    Luckily, we could always make it worse; there were times where full-sized ports were thought of standard yet we had PCs and Macs with mini-versions that were specific to the manufacturer (like mini-composite, AV-jacks, mini-VGA, mini-DVI).

jusssi 5y ago

Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are in habit of using them, boom.

iso1210 5y ago
Yes, I'm sure you could make one which acted as a USB-HDMI converter as well as a rubber ducky. sprinkle a few around, maybe bribe a cleaner to leave one in a meeting room, and you're set.
- oneplane 5y ago
  I think it's even easier than that; we now have cables that are normal shape and size of a USB connector that have an embedded system in them with a webserver, keyboard emulation, mass storage and wifi for a remote attacker to connect to. It's also easier to just ask to quickly use the worker's computer to get a presentation going. "Oh yeah sorry, my presentation is made in PowerShell instead of PowerPoint".
oneplane 5y ago
Yep. But so is a visitor dropping a bag of USB Mass Storage devices anywhere. Or a visitor with a proxmark grabber in his bag/suitcase.