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"My Linux desktop is not a smartphone where I download random, badly screened closed source apps from a play store. I'm downloading open source tools via my distro's package manager."

You're forgetting all of the untrusted Javascript (and soon Webassembly) most people are running through their web browser.

That seems to be one of the biggest security holes Wayland is designed to plug (to some extent).



How did any of that JavaScript have access to anything that would let it affect X?




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