About ten years ago, I wrote an IE/win7 plugin that broke the security model of IE to allow the browser to communicate with a USB device (in this case, a remote

About ten years ago, I wrote an IE/win7 plugin that broke the security model of IE to allow the browser to communicate with a USB device (in this case, a remote control). It was a nasty, nasty hack, and things like this shouldn't be allowed. Management insisted that our product have a web-interface because they had information that our competitor was going from desktop apps to web apps. Ironically, our competitor was never able to get its web interface working.