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Wait, so they fixed the stupid X security holes where any application can steal any other application's keystrokes, read any other application's window content,
by Hizonner 4y ago
Wait, so they fixed the stupid X security holes where any application can steal any other application's keystrokes, read any other application's window content, and interfere with global system behavior by for example grabbing ALL keystrokes... but then they went to client-side window decorations so any application can just impersonate any other?
WTF?
- nly 4y agoDesktop Linux will never be Android or iOS. Desktop software isn't sand-boxed. If you're running applications you don't fully trust then you've already lost. Every app you install can access your full filesystem, communicate freely with other things on your network, scan your browser history, steal your cookies, and exfiltrate it finds over the internet.
- Hizonner 4y agoMaybe every app YOU install can do all of that stuff... some of us lead more interesting lives. This has always been a problem in X, actually, since there was never an assumption that everything showing on your display would be running on your local computer.