Re:Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That...
by trasz on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:06AM
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Of course Wayland can’t secure your kernel or rtld, but I’m pretty sure that one of its advantages is that it can at least not send a random app the password you’re typing in.
And no, I don’t think you can really do that with x11. There was Trusted X11 long time ago, but I don’t think it was practically useful - as in, maintainable and sustainable.
As far as I understand sandboxing in Linux is “70% there” - it will get there eventually, but for now the 30% hole makes it not practically useful. It’s not bad at pretending it’s doing something though, and for (many? most?) paying customers that’s enough.
And no, I don’t think you can really do that with x11. There was Trusted X11 long time ago, but I don’t think it was practically useful - as in, maintainable and sustainable.
As far as I understand sandboxing in Linux is “70% there” - it will get there eventually, but for now the 30% hole makes it not practically useful. It’s not bad at pretending it’s doing something though, and for (many? most?) paying customers that’s enough.