• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      This is such a dumb comment. Jesus.

      “I thought passwords were meant to improve security! So how come I got a virus???”

    • machinya [it/its, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      7 months ago

      wayland was not about avoiding applications accessing resources or running scripts (that is why sandboxing is for) but to avoid programs to have access to the rest of the graphical session (things like input devices and other graphical windows and their data)

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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      6 months ago

      It does, when the bad actor is a program you run, and other open windows contain sensitive content.

      Here the bad actor is code being loaded as an extension to the compositor. A bit like a kernel module, which can bypass file access permissions if it wants.