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		noisy_boy on May 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, ... Now that you mentioned it, I think only USB Mass Storage was disabled, not the ports themselves. So the keyboard/mouse etc continue to work.

Kell on May 17, 2014 [–]

So Yubikey would work. It identifies itself as a Keyboard to the OS.

jrockway on May 17, 2014 | [–]

These are HID devices, because they need to do challenge/response with the website that's trying to authenticate. The old OTP YubiKeys were keyboards. Better than nothing but phishable.

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