"Honestly, what could possibly go wrong?" "it could be used to "read" what was on the screen via some form of OCR?" That is. They can: a)Make your computer "i

"Honestly, what could possibly go wrong?" "it could be used to "read" what was on the screen via some form of OCR?" That is. They can: a)Make your computer "impossible" to use(until you plug the computer power off and restart), what they cal Denial of Service b) They can get access to your super important and super confidential screen information, like your bank account or your plans to dominate the world. I agree with you,not a big deal to me, I find WebGL to be very useful, like google body(use google Chrome, Firefox is slower): http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html Here common sense applies, if you are going to use financial services just use them. Visit WebGL sites when you are not doing something serious and problem solved. Also while it is technically possible to do, it is really difficult to exploit, I program GPUs. I understand Microsoft position here too, they don't want people suing them because someone manage to get their financial data and stole their identity and money while watching cool webGL animations, but I think you can trust the big guys (google) on this one, they are not going to steal your financial data, in some cases they already have it :-).