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Note he didn't actually answer the question.


I'm not at all an expert to handle details about the security of WebGL. I have no idea on that front.

I do know Chrome and FF just fixed a timing attack vector where you could apparently intuit the content of a crossdomain image by interpreting what hues were based on it via the application of shaders. Which means hypothetically you could read text. Like a crazy-person's OCR.


Or like virtual Van Eck phreaking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking




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