Reply to post: The real issue

Half of people plug in USB drives they find in the parking lot

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The real issue

is organisations that allow mounting USB drives without suitable mount options (think noexec, nosuid et al). Avoiding malware this way is super easy

- Home folder is mounted with noexec and nosuid

- Automount configured to do the same.

Users can only execute system binaries and are unable to infect the system.

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