Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Re: Disable external USB devices

On 2018-01-23, Stefan Wollny <stefan@wollny.de> wrote:
> Hi there! This is a purely academical question out of curiosity: Is it
> possible to disable all external USB interfaces without cutting the wire
> on OpenBSD? You've heard stories of laptops/servers/routers with other
> OSes being infected by some clever programms on USB sticks automatically
> attaching to the running system without leaving obvious traces.
> Assumption is that with OpenBSD and nothing like 'hotplug-diskmount'
> installed this should not with be able

You don't need hotplug-diskmount for something pretending to be a
USB keyboard to send commands as if you'd typed them in.

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