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Not to say such attack scenario does not exist, but:

A USB HID device cannot listen on what other keyboards typed, except for NumLock/CapsLock/ScreenLock indicator.




USB isn't a party-line bus. An HID can't see anything from other branches of the USB subsystem. State changes have to be explicitly relayed by the host.




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