Comment on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible

• ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If an attacker has physical access to a computer, the game has already been lost.

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, in part because of attack vectors like this.

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• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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