Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible
MondayToFriday@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
What a pathetic excuse. You know what’s at the other end of a USB-A cable? A USB-B connector that didn’t have the symmetry problem. Also, Firewire existed around the same time (in fact, slightly earlier) and didn’t have the symmetry problem.
Paradox@lemdro.id 11 months ago
FireWire was an amazing interface, and nothing has quite come as close. The ability for devices on a FireWire daisy chain to talk to each other without the computer being involved made it excellent for storage
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And excellent as an attack vector to crack computers you have physical access to.
ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If an attacker has physical access to a computer, the game has already been lost.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, in part because of attack vectors like this.
cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
USB has had its share of vulnerabilities too, I’m sure if we have dropped support the last 10 years would have seen a lot of shaves to the design of Firewire.
But it is a shame that so many cool features from the 90’s and 2000’s were just gaping security holes.