Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
by mercurial on Sunday August 24, 2014 @02:29PM
(#8219239)
Sounds like a security hole: non-whitelisted malicious app launches whitelisted app as an external process, and then mayhem ensues.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
User permission should be required when launching external processes.
And whitelisted processes don't have to take input from anything other than the user himself; a command-line screenshot tool that can be run by any program and doesn't ask for interactive confirmation through a trusted channel (ie. keyboard events directed into its own window by the compositor itself) would be a pretty stupid thing to whitelist unless you've got proper sandboxing for any untrusted apps.