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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Eh, I suppose, but they could design the USB drive really hard to infect. The more narrow your use-case, the more options you have to secure it.

They could even limit it to just HDMI, which would probably be a lot harder to attack since HDMI doesn't support much besides audio and video.