safe way to attach a possibly malware loaded USB device?

[Mike Marchywka]

This has come up a while back I guess but was not sure how
to search although finally got a few hits, fwiw,

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/274203/disable-any-usb-keyboard-and-mouse

blacklist usbhid



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From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 6:41 AM
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Subject: Re: safe way to attach a possibly malware loaded USB device?

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 00:21, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just got another piece of USB hardware and don't have any real reason to be suspicious
> but I was curious if there is a USB "Safe mode" to prevent a device from acting
> in a malicious way.  I guess the universal nature allows a given device to pretend
> to be just about anything and not sure of what it could eventually do with malicious code.

No, but you can buy "USB Condoms". These are cables which only connect
the power lines and not the data lines.

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