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Can't you capture all Windows messages also?
by chris_wot 10y ago
Can't you capture all Windows messages also?
- danieldk 10y agoWindows has UI isolation between processes with different privilege levels per UIPI. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vishalsi/2006/11/30/what-is-user-interface-privilege-isolation-uipi-on-vista/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vishalsi/2006/11/30/what-is... (Note: I am not a Windows expert.)
- fnord123 10y agoVista was only released in 2006. I think the thread is discussing the period a few years before that.
- danieldk 10y agoI was reacting to: Nowadays [...] coupled with Linux's security and remote debugging capabilities, it's a very good fit for my father for example.
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- fnord123 10y agoRight, well as you point out, nowadays Wayland is default on major distributions like Rebecca Black OS and some minor players like Fedora. In any event, when a user is compromised, it's lol Windows. But when Yahoo is compromised, is anyone opining security in Linux? Or are these social engineering hacks?
- stevekemp 10y agoIt used to be a big deal - you could use the shatter attack to read the contents of text controls that stored passwords, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatter_attack These days less of a problem. Message injection/sniffing between applications in different contexts doesn't work. Unless you're the administrator, in which case it is game over already.