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Re:A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1) by thereason on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:38PM (#4010688)
"a low level interface to the GPU command buffer"

This sounds cool. Is this a standard feature in Chrome?

Re:A Tale of Two Pwnies (Part 1) by obtu on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @06:45AM (#4012461)
It's available for extensions I think (there's also the higher-level WebGL which you must be aware of), and requires whitelisted graphic drivers. As you can see, graphic acceleration offers a huge attack surface (memory-unsafety in C++ code, plus logic bugs at highly privileged levels like graphic drivers, firmware, and the hardware itself). Some of these layers realistically won't be protected until they have proper IOMMU support.