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It was an old Windows problem that it automatically executed code on mounted media devices. But I hope this was fixed on Windows in the meantime and other OS do
by kirab 13y ago
It was an old Windows problem that it automatically executed code on mounted media devices. But I hope this was fixed on Windows in the meantime and other OS don’t have this problem.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoIt's deeper than that. You're plugging a device into your system's bus, the attack surface is huge for that device to steal or modify your data. USB device is a very different beast than CD.