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Access USB devices on the Web (developers.google.com)
6 points by sagadotworld 3582 days ago
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I mean I am just reading about this on the front page http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/meet-usbee-the-malwa...

and thinking that allowing usb devices to load specific websites is just the stupidest thing I've heard in a long time.

Here's an idea - if I want to get content onto a user's computer, give them a usb with a website set to be http://www.example.org/uniqueid/Hello.html

my site loads the same for everyone with hello.html but if the uniqueid path is used then we load some extra content maybe with a lower z-index. Now this stuff is cached on our target's computer and he doesn't know.

"But most importantly this will make USB safer and easier to use by bringing it to the Web."

huh, I wonder how that will be safer...

    Buy a USB device.
    Plug it into your computer.
    A notification appears right away, with the right website to go to for this device.
    Simply click on it. Website is there and ready to use!
    
Hey, can this be made to work with autoplay enabled? I can scarcely think of anything in the world safer than plugging in a USB device and going to a website automatically!