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He's saying, literally, > So my new approach is “fuck you”. None of the Wayland detractors have a clue. Lumping everyone who may not have a rosy view of Wayla
by R0b0t1 6y ago
He's saying, literally,
> So my new approach is “fuck you”. None of the Wayland detractors have a clue.
Lumping everyone who may not have a rosy view of Wayland together.
There's a good comment by an (alleged) pentester mentioning how Wayland doesn't really buy you that much. He's right. The bigger issue is lack of isolation within a gid. I can still debug your terminal and try to get your root password.
- oconnor663 6y ago> Blanket lumping everyone who may not have a rosy view of Wayland together. I think it's a lot closer to the author's intent to read the post as "here's what I'm experiencing" rather than "here's a category view of the world that I want you to endorse". Obviously a statement like "no one in [group] understands [thing]" is never going to be 100% true. When people say things like that, they're venting.
- kaba0 6y agoBut in the same comment thread by the pentester, it turns out that what wayland does is a necessary step for security that X without embedded X sessions simply lacks. It is not sufficient but noone said so and it would be stupid to even assume that eg. a kernel bug can’t be used for escalation just because someone runs Wayland.
- R0b0t1 6y ago> It is not sufficient but noone said so and it would be stupid to even assume that Err, no, a bunch of people who bother talking about Wayland propose it as a solution to everything. Now that they are being called out on it they are walking back their positions.