Detecting and accessing a usb device from within a webbrowser -i.e using a plugin

Question

Is it possible through a plugin - activeX, Java or Flex to write a brower plugin that is able to detect an read a data stream from a USB device channel.

I have done some

Answer 1

It's considered a security risk to expose local resources and the sandbox environments for the different plugins should deny access to these resources.

So I would say that the answer to your question is a No.