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USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What a pathetic excuse. You know what's at the other end of a USB-A cable? A USB-B connector that didn't have the symmetry problem. Also, Firewire existed around the same time (in fact, slightly earlier) and didn't have the symmetry problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yes, in part because of attack vectors like this.