Security
Every driver must be secure. Users trust drivers to transfer data between their applications and their devices. An insecure driver can expose sensitive data such as the user’s passwords or account numbers to theft. Insecure drivers can also expose users to other security exploits such as denial of service or spoofing.
Drivers pose more security risks than applications, for the following reasons:
Drivers can typically be accessed by any user and can be used by multiple users at the same time.
Users are typically unaware that they are using a driver.
Security is closely related to reliability. Although the two requirements sometimes involve different programming issues, an insecure driver cannot be reliable, and vice versa. For example, a driver ...
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