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Because it's isolated and there is no DMA really.

There is a reason why the graphics driver is in user mode, and why the memory is virtualized.

The application doesn't have traditional DMA unless you load a privileged kernel which you can't do via a browser.

An application can't access the memory of another application via the display driver this is a solved issue.



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