Does using PS/2 adapter fully safeguard against USB related risks?

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USB to PS/2 adapter for keyboard and mouse

I don’t see a dedicated section yet on the forum to report, which hardware devices work well with qubes. So I’m posting this in the hardware support section. Some time ago I was searching for an option, to add an adapter for connecting my usb mouse and favourite, usb, mechanical keyboard into the PS/2 jacks on the back of my desktop mobo. Then in a usb-related post one of the members suggested, that an active adapter might work, thus removing the mouse and keyboard from the sys-usb VM. After…

USB keybd and mouse with PS/2 adapters

Availability of mechanical PS/2 keyboards is almost non-existant these days. Sadly my old IBM keyboards with the click and resistance, have long since bitten the dust. But I do have an excellent USB mechanical Hyper/X keyboard, which I’m very happy with. If I were to invest in a couple of USB to PS/2 adapter cables for my keyboard and mouse, would plugging them into the PS/2 desktop computer jacks make a new installation of Qubes recognize the keyboard and mouse as PS/2, with the resultant au…