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- kevincox 4y ago> The Linux sandbox has been strengthened: processes exposed to web content no longer have access to the X Window system (X11). That is a very significant step. I wonder if this applies to Wayland users as well or if this was already a non-issue.
- alophawen 4y agoThe issue with Xorg is that it runs as root by default (there seems to be ways to run it as non-root according to Gentoo Wiki, but I'm pretty sure most popular distros runs it as root). One of the selling points of wayland is that it does not. EDIT: See child replies. I am outdated info.
- kevincox 4y agoI don't think most distributions run X as root anymore. But it does generally have a lot of access as it can open apps and log keys. XWayland definitely doesn't run as root, but still has a lot of access to any X applications that you are running.
- alophawen 4y agoThanks for pointing that out. I'm not up to date on this.
- kup0 4y agoI wonder if this will break the hardware acceleration I've enabled to run in Firefox in X11 by using the VAAPI flags/etc
- WhyNotHugo 4y agoIt's less of an issue on Wayland. Clients can't randomly snoop onto what others are doing (e.g.: record keystrokes while on background). There's still _some_ attack surface on Wayland, but less than there was on Xorg. BTW: Note sure if this feature was implemented for Wayland, but it sounds like it wasn't.