Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:30:00 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BadUSB - On Accessories that Turn Evil, by Karsten Nohl + Jakob Lell Message-ID: <66233.1412627400@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <201410061956.s96Ju8S3089675@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201410061956.s96Ju8S3089675@fire.js.berklix.net>
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-------- In message <201410061956.s96Ju8S3089675@fire.js.berklix.net>, "Julian H. S= tacey " writes: >For FreeBSD, > I guess for serious security, every new device that is connected > & recognised by /sbin/devd should in future be personaly authorised > by a human ! One can no longer trust what reports itself to be > eg a keyboard to actually Be a keyboard, etc. "no longer" ? When you could you *ever* trust a USB device about anything ? -- = Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe = Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence= .
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