If you see Error Code 14, This device can not work properly until you restart your computer in Device Manager or Windows 11/10, see this post.

Medical devices have no uniform labeling system that would allow a database to track them.

Error Code 21 is faced when a hardware device isn't properly removed. You will see Device Manager error Windows is removing this device.

Before entering any device code, users should verify the legitimacy of the request through a separate communication channel, such as a direct phone call or an internal messaging platform.

In device-code phishing attacks, threat actors prompt the application or service to generate a device code and then trick the targeted users into entering it into a legitimate sign-in portal.

Device codes are perfectly fine, but less tech savvy users or people who don't grok why they're being prompted to login to a device code page will still do it. It's a user problem. Users don't read.

But somewhere, in the highest tower, is stuff that only the people who made the device get access to. This is the inner sanctum where the foundational code that determines how the device works lives.