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Re:Apple is getting this wrong by fingerlocks on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:56PM (#49177316)
Firmware development, IoT, basically anything embedded. Mobile devs that want a responsive debugger. Yubikey authentication. Smart card readers. Remoting into air-gapped machines.

Thats just stuff I do.I’m sure there are many other use cases.

For context, I work for a very large company in Redmond that has a renowned history of antitrust litigation.

Re:Apple is getting this wrong by Melatonic on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @04:41AM (#49180163)
Lot of places just lock down USB to read only. Exceptions could be made for specific machines and device IDs.

It's pretty common really - and if the internal disk is fully encrypted reasonably hard to easily exfiltrate a large amount of data.

Of course that doesn't stop taking screenshots with another device but that's a slow process