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Looking forward to a local webusb+rtlsdr based Flightradar.
` ` let's get that in html6! Nice use of web components!
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#his...
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Yeah... It's an accident waiting to happen with someone's security key. (Yes, I'm aware chrome tries to protect that one... for now) We really need more intentionality around hardware use. There's many SDR apps already packaged for all systems. Stop trying to juggle chainsaws, please!
The UI makes it very obvious as you have to select a device. Anyone who is worried, including corporations, can disable it.
It's not that this can't be done, it's that this is changing the rules that existing security is built on.
I would try to make it work with whitelists and/or restricting the functionality to browser add-ons rather than plain websites. Both add extra checkpoints where some security can be added back in, or rather perform this "weakening" of the previous security boundary in a more controlled manner.
it's a chrome application not an html5 one. It only works on one browser (and its forks) because it uses proprietary, nonstandard apis.
What are the other APIs to have USB access?
Awesome! On mobile now but intend to try it with my HackRF later. Anything to consider, or should work fine?
I wish Firefox would implement this API too, it's been years.
Mozilla's position is to not implement this API due to security and privacy concerns, and I agree with them on that even though I'd really like to use this API too.