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Re:8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE by PeterStuer on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:09PM (#49300704)
Not sure. Do you have numbers? AFAIK having the eID reader was mostly an IT crowd thing. 'Normies' never had them, and even if they did they would have borked on the install.
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Re:8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE by acorn221 on Saturday August 15, 2026 @10:24AM (#49310843)
The only numbers I've got right now are the 2M+ weekly active users on the chrome web store listing - I've not got exact numbers for how many people use the card readers but I get the impression it's more common in the legacy enterprise/government world.

The 2M+ WAUs would still be vulnerable to the RCE (assuming the native host is setup) independent of whether or not they have a card reader.

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