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usb-protection: Relax the whitelist to all HIDs and HUBs

Ludovico de Nittis requested to merge denittis/gnome-settings-daemon:denittis/allow_mouse_and_hub into master

We discriminate keyboards when the screen is locked, i.e. we allow them so that the user can input their password. But when the keyboard is behind a hub, e.g. the laptop on a docking station, then the keyboard does not work.

The mouse is probably also commonly used to unlock the screen before typing the password.

Because this protection is enabled by default, and we don't want to get in the way of the user and their session, with this commit we expand the class of allowed devices to all HIDs and HUBs.

Stricter protection features might be evaluated in the future.

/cc @tobiasmue @bberg

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