Almost certainly still an issue, but I don't have the USB device any
more.
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USB Webkey devices send arbitrary keyboard input to focused
Tom Chiverton, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment
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Tom Chiverton, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an
issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development
release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
Least anyone think the risk from trusting input from these sort of
devices is kinda abstract :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/27/mission_impossible_mouse_attack/
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Hmm... can selinux disable USB input devices?
There is a strong case that usb input devices not used for logon should
be explicitly enabled after logon (and perhaps remembered).
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If selinux can't udev certainly can (I remember having to add special rules to
make VirtualBox talk to USB devices) :-)
I suppose you could run a script on login ... but have no idea how you might
find out what USB devices were active during the login window
And what about if I reboot with
Syslog of insertion:
Jun 17 18:44:06 wopr kernel: [ 249.370784] ehci_hcd :00:1a.7: setting
latency timer to 64
Jun 17 18:44:06 wopr kernel: [ 249.632098] usb 5-1: new low speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 2
Jun 17 18:44:06 wopr laptop-mode: Laptop mode
Jun 17 18:44:06 wopr
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Status: New = Confirmed
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USB Webkey devices send arbitrary keyboard input to focused window
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