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If USB ports are disabled, how are the keyboard and the mouse connected? PS/2?

• noisy_boy 12y ago
  Now that you mentioned it, I think only USB Mass Storage was disabled, not the ports themselves. So the keyboard/mouse etc continue to work.
  • Kell 12y ago
    So Yubikey would work. It identifies itself as a Keyboard to the OS.
    • jrockway 12y ago
      These are HID devices, because they need to do challenge/response with the website that's trying to authenticate. The old OTP YubiKeys were keyboards. Better than nothing but phishable.
• mgkimsal 12y ago
  bluetooth?
  • harshreality 12y ago
    Requires batteries. NFC is the obvious choice, and yubikey neo already supports that. Note that (going back to top-level parent comment) current yubikey neos cannot support U2F; all they say is U2F compatible devices will be available sometime [later] this year.
• lotu 12y ago
  They can be permanently connected to computer.
  • DrJokepu 12y ago
    Yes but even such a solution would surely use some sort of existing internal interface such as USB or PS/2, even if in practice the wires are soldered directly to the motherboard? Otherwise you'd have to build special hardware, controller chips, develop and maintain the driver?