USB Stick Security is Fundamentally Broken

Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/

 

Any time a USB stick is plugged into a computer, its firmware could be reprogrammed by malware on that PC, with no easy way for the USB device's owner to detect it. And likewise, any USB device could silently infect a user's computer. "It goes both ways," Nohl says. "Nobody can trust anybody."

 

Trust must come from the fact that no one malicious has ever touched it," says Nohl. "You have to consider a USB infected and throw it away as soon as it touches a non-trusted computer. And that's incompatible with how we use USB devices right now."

 

The alternative is to treat USB devices like hypodermic needles.

Thanks Dr.A