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by gmueckl 2608 days ago
The whole process starts with the installation of aoftware to identify the computer. The vulnerable service is part of that. Thw list of drivers could just as well be shown by a local GUI ghat is started by thenbrowser through an URL handler registered in the system. There would be no need for any of this frankly stupid Rube Goldberg website/webservers interaction. It would be one less TCP server socket in the system.