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So websites can now nag users to allow access to the root of their local disk and then read all their files and settings, all their SSH keys and other passwords?

From what I gather from the docs [1], this API gives you a FileSystemDirectoryHandle object, and then you just call getDirectoryHandle() on that to recursively read the the entire filesystem. The spec [2] has some vague suggestions about blacklisting certain particularly sensitive files, which doesn't seem reassuring.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file...

[2] https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/#privacy-wide-acce...

parent ptx 4 months ago

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