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Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards? by justsomehnguy on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:22PM (#32684150)
> a driver could easily be malicious and exfiltrate anything it wanted to anywhere it wanted

This is a thing too, but the main problem was what a kernel level drivers not only could, but WOULD crash the kernel (ie cause a BSOD) if something goes wrong. And things gone wrong very, very often.

People like to bitch about changes in NT6+, but I have seen waaay less BSODs (not related to the botched hardware) after that.

Re:Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards? by naikrovek on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:28PM (#32684205)
thank you, i forgot to mention that.