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Re:Xterm.js by lhnz on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:36AM (#28798489)
Are terminals better sandboxed when run outside of a browser?
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Re:Xterm.js by rbanffy on Friday October 08, 2021 @08:49AM (#28798622)
Usually yes. They are running in a completely different process than the browser.
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Re:Xterm.js by chungy on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#28802479)
Don't be ridiculous. The only and obvious answer to the question is "no" -- the terminal itself and all commands inside it run unimpeded.
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Re:Xterm.js by rbanffy on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:51AM (#28808700)
A malicious website would have a hard time capturing (or injecting) info an OS terminal running on an entirely different process than it would on a browser with imperfect context separation.

You clearly misunderstood the issue.

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