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scottbez1today at 2:26 PM1 replyview on HN

How does the security of userspace drivers compare to having drivers within a sandboxed web environment with access to only the devices you’ve explicitly allowlisted?


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bigfishrunningtoday at 4:00 PM

It's about the same. People will blindly click allow on a webpage in the same way that they blindly run libusb binaries with `sudo` that they copied from some webpage. Security is possible in all of these scenarios, but always undermined by the users.

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