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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
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 22:52:45 -0000 (UTC)
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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>