A question about arbitrary values in USB registry keys

I was recently teaching the SANS FOR500 Windows Forensic Analysis class in Canberra and I was asked a question about how we track the connection times for USB devices in the registry:

My answer at the time was, “they are arbitrary” but I thought I should look into it a little bit more, and I’m glad I did! This is also something that was kind of discussed a very long time ago, but I’d not really looked into it myself.

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