Be mindful that such a program would have to be safer than the situation without. A program on a public repository that isn’t used by any distribution, isn’t audited, hasn’t a lot of comments (and thus eyes on its code) might be a disproportionate risk compared to the default settings of a popular open source distribution IMHO.
I think to be fully safe, you would have to get prompted for any type of USB device including a mouse and keyboard. At least I think that’s the idea of USBGuard.
Is there a similar program for Linux?
Be mindful that such a program would have to be safer than the situation without. A program on a public repository that isn’t used by any distribution, isn’t audited, hasn’t a lot of comments (and thus eyes on its code) might be a disproportionate risk compared to the default settings of a popular open source distribution IMHO.
Linux has USBGuard and is likely in your distro’s repos. It operates the same way with having rules on which usb devices to allow
So, uh, a udev GUI?
When I plug a USB device in on KDE I get prompted to see if I want to mount it or not.
I think to be fully safe, you would have to get prompted for any type of USB device including a mouse and keyboard. At least I think that’s the idea of USBGuard.
the usb device is auto detected and activated, it’s just asking you to mount if it happens to be a storage device