alt Hacker NewsA part of me is always smiling a little inside when people find creative ways to abuse browsers. It's always one more demonstration that the current web is fundamentally broken by design. The distinction between web browsers and random programs that allow remore arbitrary code execution is becoming more and more academic with every new feature that gets exposed to JavaScript.
Of course, I am also a horrible hypocrite and will actually use websites that use features like WebUSB or WebRTC.
It was a mistake to normalize blindly executing whatever code the server sends your browser. One day we'll look back on this era and wish we had pulled the plug sooner.