Calling this "hardware-based security" is somewhere between disingenuous and dangerously naive. Hardware-based security normally implies hardware with a dedicated secure element with cryptographic identities which are impossible to spoof. Security based on USB serial numbers can be defeated by any adversarial device claiming to use the same serial device as a device you have registered. There's no secure signatures or anything backing a USB serial number.
This is so, so much worse than that though, because the code doesn't even do what the AI-hallucinated documentation describes, because as far as I can tell the actual "serial number" is returned by the following line:
Ok(Some(format!("{:?}", device.product_id())))
So the "serial number" is actually the USB product id, which generally corresponds to the "model", not even unique per-device. So you didn't even test this with multiple identical flash drives.
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And also do they not get saved in logs like dmesg?
This is so, so much worse than that though, because the code doesn't even do what the AI-hallucinated documentation describes, because as far as I can tell the actual "serial number" is returned by the following line: Ok(Some(format!("{:?}", device.product_id()))) So the "serial number" is actually the USB product id, which generally corresponds to the "model", not even unique per-device. So you didn't even test this with multiple identical flash drives.