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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it
 goes
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 00:19:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 20 May 2025 23:37:41 +0000, Tyrone wrote:

> On May 18, 2025 at 6:52:45 PM EDT, "Lawrence D'Oliveiro"
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 18 May 2025 20:59:13 +0000, Tyrone wrote:
>> 
>>> Any USB stick in the company I work at is immedately encrypted upon
>>> insertion.
>> 
>> Do you have any kind of hardware protection against malicious firmware?
>> 
>> <https://opensource.srlabs.de/projects/badusb>
>> <https://github.com/robertfisk/USG/wiki>
> 
> No, that's not the problem I am talking about. Companies don't want
> their stuff walking out the door on a USB drive.

They should be more concerned about it walking out the door over their 
network.