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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And excellent as an attack vector to crack computers you have physical access to.

[–] cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 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.