A hardware-oriented attack vector that completely unravels the carefully conceived schemes of the application layer's software-oriented security that sits on top of it.
Why send the rest of the ecosystem scurrying about, chasing their tails?
And if the ecosystem gets the rug abruptly pulled out from under it one time, then how many more times will their efforts get trashed? Probably as many times as is necessary to shake them loose.
No announcements, no roadmap, no communication channel, just a sudden upgrade and everything starts timing out, or throwing errors.
Someone threw the killswitch. And they'll toggle it as often as needed, to cut out whatever the target percentage of attrition is.
And USB at the heart of it. My old friend, USB.
Why am I not surprised?