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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by corobo on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:23PM (#17961142)
> The clipboard is a big public billboard visible to anything running on your computer

So is your keyboard buffer. If someone's already in your computer watching your clipboard they're probably also watching anything you type too

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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by floatboth on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:04PM (#17961953)
On X11 and Windows (except UWP apps probably?), yes. On Wayland, random apps can't listen to global keyboard events.
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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by berti on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:14AM (#17965722)
A number of people dislike Wayland because applications can't watch the screen, keyboard input, clipboard etc outside of their own window. Really, that's one of its great strengths over X11.
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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by ShamelessC on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:19AM (#17967751)
I'm curious, how does an application such as OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/) work with such limitations in place?
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Re:The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security by floatboth on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:20PM (#17982168)
Through some API that checks authorization.

Eventually everyone should be using https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... (which is based on https://pipewire.org )

For now, e.g. https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-screencast uses org.gnome.Shell.Screencast

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