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Copy edited (e.g. ref. <en.wiktionary.org/wiki/read-only#Adjective>). Fixed the question formation - missing auxiliary (or helping) verb - see e.g. <www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yWEt0OSpg&t=1m49s> (QUASM). [(its = possessive, it's = "it is" or "it has". See e.g. <www.wikihow.com/Use-Its-and-It%27s>.)]
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Peter Mortensen
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Why do some FIDO security fobs use keyboard emulation mode?

I was troubled from the very beginning by the fact that my U2F security fob acts as a keyboard and theoretically is able to press any key when no one is looking. Sometimes I accidentally touchingtouch it and then screen goes mad because of all those keystrokes. It seems to me a pretty bad design choice. 

I was reading article by YubiCo with justifications and not much of it makes sense. It says that itsit’s because of drivers, but following the same logic such a security key can be just a readonlyread-only flash drive with some added extra sauce on top for key management without any keyboard jazz.

So why keyboard emulation? Are there any alternative fobs taking a less spooky approach?

Why some FIDO security fobs use keyboard emulation mode?

I was troubled from the very beginning by the fact that my U2F security fob acts as a keyboard and theoretically is able to press any key when no one is looking. Sometimes I accidentally touching it and then screen goes mad because of all those keystrokes. It seems to me a pretty bad design choice. I was reading article by YubiCo with justifications and not much of it makes sense. It says that its because of drivers, but following the same logic such security key can be just a readonly flash drive with some added extra sauce on top for key management without any keyboard jazz.

So why keyboard emulation? Are there any alternative fobs taking a less spooky approach?

Why do some FIDO security fobs use keyboard emulation mode?

I was troubled from the very beginning by the fact that my U2F security fob acts as a keyboard and theoretically is able to press any key when no one is looking. Sometimes I accidentally touch it and then screen goes mad because of all those keystrokes. It seems to me a pretty bad design choice. 

I was reading article by YubiCo with justifications and not much of it makes sense. It says that it’s because of drivers, but following the same logic such a security key can be just a read-only flash drive with some added extra sauce on top for key management without any keyboard jazz.

So why keyboard emulation? Are there any alternative fobs taking a less spooky approach?

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Why some FIDO security fobs use keyboard emulation mode?

I was troubled from the very beginning by the fact that my U2F security fob acts as a keyboard and theoretically is able to press any key when no one is looking. Sometimes I accidentally touching it and then screen goes mad because of all those keystrokes. It seems to me a pretty bad design choice. I was reading article by YubiCo with justifications and not much of it makes sense. It says that its because of drivers, but following the same logic such security key can be just a readonly flash drive with some added extra sauce on top for key management without any keyboard jazz.

So why keyboard emulation? Are there any alternative fobs taking a less spooky approach?