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

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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