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icebraining on April 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebUSB API: draft spec to safely expose USB device...

With or without WebUSB, browsers can already talk to USB devices, and so if you can exploit the browser to run your own code, you can too.

pdkl95 on April 10, 2016 [–]

Then show me the USB interface code in firefox. As far as I know, it doesn't exist.

icebraining on April 10, 2016 | [–]

It's in the Win32 DLLs that Firefox links against.

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