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This isn't particularly more dangerous than the autorun crap most OSes will happily do when you put in a CD. I don't know who could have possibly thought that
by amalcon 17y ago
This isn't particularly more dangerous than the autorun crap most OSes will happily do when you put in a CD. I don't know who could have possibly thought that was a good idea.
- kwantam 17y agoWell, it's certainly more cross-platform, and a CD can't pretend to be a keyboard.
- amalcon 17y agoCross-platform I'll grant, though most of the malicious things you'd do with a keyboard are not cross-platform. A CD most certainly can pretend to be a keyboard, though. Autoplay is arbitrary code execution, and arbitrary code execution can do anything.
- mru 17y agoIn Win95/98 an autorun CD would defeat a password-locked screensaver. We had loads of fun with that...