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It's not just theoretical purity. Wayland also plugs pretty big security holes in X, like the ability to implement global keyloggers.
by bloppe 11mo ago
It's not just theoretical purity. Wayland also plugs pretty big security holes in X, like the ability to implement global keyloggers.
- rcxdude 11mo agoAt the cost of fragmenting the APIs to do any kind of related thing between all the different implementations (and making each one special-purpose as opposed to having a generalized mechanism to muck around with input and output).
- phba 11mo agoApparently X11 has a security extension [1]. There was a discussion some months ago [2]. Xenocara (X on OpenBSD) improves security by dropping privileges and using features like pledge [3], but I don't know how this affects the feasability of keyloggers. [1] https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.html https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xextproto/security.ht... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44768745 [3] https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2 https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2