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		immibis 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where's Firefox going next? Access to a programmable USB device is access to your entire computer. They can program it to emulate a mouse and accept more permissions.

mherkender 4 months ago [–]

I don't see how WebUSB makes that risk worse. At least I avoid making it easy and running somebody's firmware updater on my computer.

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