I just joined and I apologize in advance for any breech of etiquette. I will learn my way around in time.
I am a big fan of Chromebooks. I'm trying to replace an ancient Windows machine with a current Chromebook. I need to connect more things to it than I have ports (monitor, keyboard, mouse, MIDI piano). A USB hub solves the plumbing problem. But I can't bring myself to use the external keyboard via the USB hub to enter my Lastpass password. I don't know what might be lurking in that little box and I don't want to find out the hard way.
So here's my question, how promiscuous is USB? If I plug the hub (with everything except the computer keyboard) into one USB port on the Chromebook and the keyboard into another, will the keyboard output be shared with the other USB ports? In other words, would the USB hub still be able to capture my keystrokes?
I am a big fan of Chromebooks. I'm trying to replace an ancient Windows machine with a current Chromebook. I need to connect more things to it than I have ports (monitor, keyboard, mouse, MIDI piano). A USB hub solves the plumbing problem. But I can't bring myself to use the external keyboard via the USB hub to enter my Lastpass password. I don't know what might be lurking in that little box and I don't want to find out the hard way.
So here's my question, how promiscuous is USB? If I plug the hub (with everything except the computer keyboard) into one USB port on the Chromebook and the keyboard into another, will the keyboard output be shared with the other USB ports? In other words, would the USB hub still be able to capture my keystrokes?