' WebUSB ', an API that allows direct access to a USB device connected to a PC via a web browser, was developed in 2016 by Google engineers. It was officially supported by Google Chrome in 2017, but ...

When [gdarchen] wanted to read some NFC tags, he went through several iterations. First, he tried an Electron application, and then a client-server architecture. But his final iteration was to make a ...

The pandemic has left my usual calendar of events in shambles this year. Where I’d have expected to have spent a significant portion of my summer mingling with our wonderful and diverse community ...

There's no better way to protect yourself from the universal scourge of phishing attacks than with a hardware token like a Yubikey, which stymies attackers even if you accidentally hand them your ...

Google is working on a new Unrestricted WebUSB feature, which allows trusted isolated web apps to bypass security restrictions in the WebUSB API. WebUSB is a JavaScript API that allows web ...

Two Google engineers have outlined a draft interface for securely connecting USB devices to any webpage. The draft for WebUSB isn't for things like keyboards, mice, and hard drives, but rather for ...

Just a couple of weeks ago, we took a look at the [then] forthcoming version 61 of Google's Chrome, which introduces some notable features, including support for a slew of new APIs. Chrome 61 is now ...

Two Google engineers have created a draft version of an API—dubbed WebUSB—that aims at providing a simple and safe way to expose USB devices to the Web. The idea behind the project, created by Google ...

Two Google developers, Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot, have published a draft document on an API for direct USB access via web pages. The document, titled WebUSB API, provides a way to safely expose USB ...

Two Google engineers have introduced a new API called WebUSB to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG) that would allow USB devices to connect to the Web safely. The API ...