Thought it was a flash drive [video]

Post by sthgrau » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #40

Gaelan wrote: post #36

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If there's a monitor, you don't need to trust the first keyboard—just display a message with "type this [random] code to allow this keyboard."

I like this, but how do you know the keyboard layout?

My thought was that it would be an excellent, low knowledge way of figuring that out. For example, if it said type "qwerty" and it came through as "azerty", that would get you 95% of the way to having a fully functional keyboard. Mapping out the requisite keys needed to fully identify the keys could probably be done with a fairly short number of key presses for 99+% of likely keyboards.

For this case, I am assuming that the keyboard and os language are fairly compatible, at least translatable.

Post by swiley » Wed, Jun 19, 2019, 4:59 PM UTC

lbotos wrote: post #35

swiley wrote: post #25

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Well it is a cool thing. It’s different and that makes it interesting. Sometimes I feel like all this worrying about computer security makes it harder for people to share new things.

Uh, I think you are making an argument against safety and i'm not sure if you are being sarcastic? It's one thing to theorize, discuss and build something dangerous, it's another to actually use it. See Flamethrowers.

Flamethrowers are a great analogy.

Adults who know each other and the dangers well should be (and are) allowed to play with flamethrowers. I’m not sure I’d want to live in a place where they couldn’t.

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