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Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

From Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...
Date 2020-08-12 17:40 +0200
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>  The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason
> that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one of the USB
> ports (which I had used before just fine), but if connected through a
> USB hub it works just fine. So I wonder what could be going on, or
> "they" are just messing with me, make me "wonder" ... as if I didn't
> have enough to do already.

Hmm... maybe the USB hub has been worried you'd find it useless it so it
asked your keyboard for help?


        Stefan

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is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop  from the Internet? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-08-08 16:30 +0200
  Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you  laptop from the Internet? ... Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2020-08-08 18:50 +0200
  Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you          laptop from the Internet? ... Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-08-08 18:50 +0200
    Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you  laptop from the Internet? ... Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2020-08-11 17:20 +0200
  Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you  laptop from the Internet? ... Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-08-12 09:00 +0200
  Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ... Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-08-12 17:40 +0200
  Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you  laptop from the Internet? ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-08-13 16:10 +0200

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