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Re: Malicious devices & vulnerabilties


From: Xi Wang <xi.wang () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:13:37 -0500

On Jan 8, 2012, at 6:19 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
I think they should be considered vulnerable.  Some applications need
some robustness to attacks even from the local console (e.g., student
computer rooms).

Thanks for bringing that up.  Student computer rooms are a
nice example, and a good old memory. ;-)

USB is also a popular transport in many air-gapped environments.

What else might be on this "untrusted" device list?  Firewire?
I guess those in the PC box don't count.

- xi


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