I can especially see lots of righteous indignation from lots of people who don't even have any USB hardware
Not that I want to dredge up this whole argument again, but the "protection" wasn't limited to the USB drivers. I verified its existance in the pci.library installed on my own A4000.
@ikir and AmiDelf
Well, if you trust Elbox, then good for you. Personally, having found that code on my system I trust them about as far as I could throw them. They have lost a SharkPPC sale from me, anyway.