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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FireWire was an amazing interface, and nothing has quite come as close. The ability for devices on a FireWire daisy chain to talk to each other without the computer being involved made it excellent for storage

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And excellent as an attack vector to crack computers you have physical access to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If an attacker has physical access to a computer, the game has already been lost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, in part because of attack vectors like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

USB has had its share of vulnerabilities too, I’m sure if we have dropped support the last 10 years would have seen a lot of shaves to the design of Firewire.

But it is a shame that so many cool features from the 90’s and 2000’s were just gaping security holes.