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A comment on The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation.

Re:The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation by joveian on Thursday April 17, 2014 @10:31PM (#7607684)
For a lot of end user systems it doesn't really matter if cross-user protection boundaries exist or not because there is only one user on the system. It is the lack of sub-user protection boundaries that is a big concern.

I hadn't heard of Qubes, looks interesting.

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Re:The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation by ape4 on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:32AM (#7608569)
I agree if I launch app A and I launch app B its ok if they can see what the other is doing. But what if some nasty process launches an app. Of course, viruses (etc) are very rare on Linux.
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Re:The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation by antocv on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:43AM (#7608583)
It is of concern when user browses badsite.ir and flash runs some process as the user.
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