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[–] kltpzyxm ago 

Its doesnt generally work like that, no. Linux has generic drivers to cover the most common scenarios. A generic USB mouse driver, a USB keyboard driver, a bluetooth keyboard driver, bluetooth mouse, even a generic bluetooth USB driver! The linux devs try to prepare for everything.

There are of course keyboards with extra features like a USB hub, backlighting a trackpad, media controls, you name it.

The generic keyboard drivers actually include media button support, including a lot of keys to open the terminal, open the default browser, Open the file browser, reset wifi and more. Any combination of those could be dangerous.

Theoretically, its possible to open the terminal, paste a string into a file and transfer that file using basic file transfer protocol. Its just highly unlikely.