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Re: The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation by jojo1 on Saturday April 23, 2011 @07:38PM (#2477880)
xinput is still able to read all keys when xterm's secure keyboard is enabled.
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Re: The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation by there on Saturday April 23, 2011 @07:41PM (#2477885)
right, because it's not operating on x11 events, it's just directly reading xinput data. there's not much xterm can do when the underlying server is giving away all of the raw input data.
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