OK, this is great advice if you're picking up that "flash drive" you found in the parking lot that's actually a HID-input device that's gonna drop a reverse shell in .2 seconds flat.
But basic USB drives? Given sane defaults like... Don't autoexecute whatever the drive asks to do, what should be one's security stance? Granted, there will always exist vulns that may result in compromise anyway, like that old .lnk bug in Windows (and I'm sure there are similar vectors across platforms).
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OK, this is great advice if you're picking up that "flash drive" you found in the parking lot that's actually a HID-input device that's gonna drop a reverse shell in .2 seconds flat.
But basic USB drives? Given sane defaults like... Don't autoexecute whatever the drive asks to do, what should be one's security stance? Granted, there will always exist vulns that may result in compromise anyway, like that old .lnk bug in Windows (and I'm sure there are similar vectors across platforms).