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I've wondered about this for a while - why didn't XACE get wide adoption?

• tedunangst 3y ago
  Because nobody actually cares about keyloggers. They just like how it feels to say "Wayland is secure". Anybody who cared about key loggers or screen scrapers or any of that solved their problem two decades ago.
• arp242 3y ago
  From what I can find XACE doesn't actually work all that well. e.g. [1] mentions "X Applications expect full access to X server and die when denied any access". It's rather vague and kind of hard to find more detailed information. I also agree with the sibling comment from tedunangst that most people just don't worry all that much about keyloggers, nor should they IMHO because it's not really a common attack vector. [1]: https://fedorapeople.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/Presentations/sandbox.pdf https://fedorapeople.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/Presentations/sandb...