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But Wayland is far easier than that to secure, because it's reasonably secure today. Securing X11 would be a lot of work, which nobody has signed up to do. Far
by pcwalton 4y ago
But Wayland is far easier than that to secure, because it's reasonably secure today. Securing X11 would be a lot of work, which nobody has signed up to do. Far easier than fixing the relatively minor complaints about Wayland.
Besides, seccomp-bpf and windowing protocol security are orthogonal. Desktop apps must make syscalls, and they must interact with the window server. You need security for both.