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by lpcvoid 69 days ago
>Wayland

I can see the rest, but why did you mix in Wayland, a open source display protocol?

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I think there's some controversy regarding that programs are limited in what extent they can access each other. You need sudo to do global hotkeys/keylogging, probably accessing pixel contents of other apps, etc. I suppose they mean it only prevents some specific threats while leaving open goals in other, even more easily exploited places