Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no (www.theregister.com)

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[-] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 week ago

Chrome's had it for five years, and I don't recall any Webserial-specific vulnerabilities in it (but I could be wrong!)

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

i'd bet on webusb being compromised first, when/if that takes off for more mundane tasks.

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