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Citrix is working on something it calls “ USB redirection to cloud” that will allow input devices on local devices to work on virtual desktops. Over the last year, everyone in the remote/virtual/as-a-service desktop business has been talking up their ability to virtualise the graphics-heavy apps that some users wield. It's …

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  1. Kaltern

    *ZOP!*

    Arrgh there goes my anti-Citrix acne again.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Right

    Wake me up with this is something original.

    What is the difference from this and USB in the host?

    Exactly, you added the cloud word.

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  3. Warm Braw

    Citrix, allow me to introduce my generic and entirely innocent Human Input Device...

    USB security is already fundamentally broken. But the cloud fixes everything, right?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    So not only will the machine some idiot has put a usb trojan/malware/virus (to name but a few hatstands) in get affected but all the others as well.

    How useful...

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  5. Mike 16

    Can it virtualize/cloudify

    This:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/12/usb_drive_fry_your_laptop/

    Just curious

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  6. jonathanb Silver badge

    "signature pads on credit card machines"

    Is that still a thing? I thought they were replaced with PIN pads about 10 years ago.

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  7. razorfishsl

    Yep and you thought USB 1.0 was slow......

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