A human on a keyboard attached to a device while its unlocked can navigate to a webpage just bypressing keys, so malicious USB can just do what a person can do, but automatically.
It probably works much better on a computer after the user walks away, it’s a bit harder on a phone since most people instinctively presses the power button to turn off the screen so it autolocks (since you usually put it away in your pocket, so its muscle memory), but for a computer, there are certain people that just walks away to the bathroom or something and leave their device unlocked… so a person with access to a keyboard connected to that computer can do stuff on it… same as a script on a chip that sends keystrokes to the computer…
No permission needed for a keyboard to open up a malicious webpage.
Yes a keyboard. Your USB cable wears a trench coat that says “Hey I’m a Keyboard, lemmy in”
Last time I checked a keyboard can’t just open up a web page. That’s not how it works.
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A human on a keyboard attached to a device while its unlocked can navigate to a webpage just bypressing keys, so malicious USB can just do what a person can do, but automatically.
It probably works much better on a computer after the user walks away, it’s a bit harder on a phone since most people instinctively presses the power button to turn off the screen so it autolocks (since you usually put it away in your pocket, so its muscle memory), but for a computer, there are certain people that just walks away to the bathroom or something and leave their device unlocked… so a person with access to a keyboard connected to that computer can do stuff on it… same as a script on a chip that sends keystrokes to the computer…