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Re: Yet Another Security Hole

Well Micros~1 could disable auto-run from USB sticks as the default.

Auto-run only being active for identified USB sticks (e.g. using some hash on the auto-run command) after it was authorized once after acknowledging a security warning would stop a lot of attacks on users not aware of this attack vector.

A trade off between security and convenience - what will win?

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