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So, essentially a Specific Serial Buss? We'd be going back to pre-USB times, except without the advantage of differently shaped connectors.
by Phoshi 12y ago
So, essentially a Specific Serial Buss? We'd be going back to pre-USB times, except without the advantage of differently shaped connectors.
- taeric 12y agoYes, except I'm saying to do it by software. Make sense? The port could take in anything. But there is no reason for it to expect anything. It should really only expect things I have indicated for it to expect.
- smacktoward 12y agoWouldn't that just end up working like this? 1) User finds USB stick in parking lot 2) User takes USB stick back to desk and plugs it into workstation 3) Workstation throws up a dialog saying "Hey! I don't recognize that thing you just plugged in! Are you sure you want to let it connect?" 4) User blindly clicks "OK" on dialog without reading it while surfing porn in another window
- taeric 12y agoThe UI should instead say "The device plugged in is not a storage token" or some such. Even better if it lists what the device is claiming to be. And, really, if we are concerned with people blindly clicking "OK", I'm not sure of what you can do.
- click170 12y agoI like this idea. It doesn't even have to be turned on by default, it could be an opt-in kernel module that doesn't load until you ask for it.