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Igglyboo on Oct 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir

Your perfectly fine software(X11), lets windows spy on each other and read keystrokes to other windows. Any client can pretty much control the entire server.

tormeh on Oct 17, 2014 [–]

This is a general problem in Linux. Non-root programs have too much power across the board. A more Android-like permission style solution would be much better.

jerven on Oct 18, 2014 | [–]

And you need something like wayland or mir to have such permission systems work. X11 is from a different age like bash ;)

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