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Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no (www.theregister.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

All my serial devices need careful handling and will happily destroy themselves or start a fire if given the wrong instructions — my 3D printer, my laser engraver, my inverter/solar/battery monitor-programmer.

None of them are remotely prepared or hardened in any way to protect from malicious or careless commands.

I don’t generally trust websites and I do not want any website to discover those devices and interact with them.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Maybe it will depend on the specifics of their UI/UX implementation, but I don't think you'll end up in a scenario where you're surprised that a website suddenly has access to your serial ports. I expect the UI will be fail-safe, very visible, and that you'll be able to disable it entirely if you wish, so that you never even see a prompt.

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