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		kwantam on Nov 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amex sends USB trojan keyboards in ads Well, it's certainly more cross-platform, and a CD can't pretend to be a keyboard.

amalcon on Nov 10, 2009 [–]

Cross-platform I'll grant, though most of the malicious things you'd do with a keyboard are not cross-platform.

A CD most certainly can pretend to be a keyboard, though. Autoplay is arbitrary code execution, and arbitrary code execution can do anything.

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