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My dad's a doctor: his bit of the NHS has never allowed USB devices anywhere near any computer on any of their sites. HIDs are whitelisted by device ID iirc, an
by JonnieCache 12y ago
My dad's a doctor: his bit of the NHS has never allowed USB devices anywhere near any computer on any of their sites. HIDs are whitelisted by device ID iirc, and physically secured.
I'm guessing somebody there looked at the spec back in the 90s and gave it two thumbs down.
- mariusz79 12y agoWell, but if someone downloads malware from the net, that HID can still get infected.
- eli 12y agoIsn't part of the point that it's trivial to spoof device ID?
- JonnieCache 12y agoYep. You'd have to either know what was on the whitelist or do some kind of bruteforce. Wouldn't be very hard, although I think this stuff is logged centrally in organisations as data-paranoid as the NHS so some random box hotplugging thousands of different peripherals every minute would attract attention pretty quickly, you'd hope. When I was (working) at the hospital most of the records were still on good old hard-to-steal paper. Still are IIRC, the governments plan to IT-ize it all was fucked up by the vendors in exactly the way you'd imagine.
- mariusz79 12y agoOr you could safely assume that it's either keyboard made by Dell, IBM, or one of few well known companies.