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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.
Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports by jhasse on Sunday August 24, 2014 @03:08PM (#8219354)
User permission should be required when launching external processes.
Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports by wtallis on Sunday August 24, 2014 @10:08PM (#8220285)
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.