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M95Dyesterday at 5:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

I think it was the "security" argument. Some magic words like "security" and "protect the children" make most people go insane, abandon all reason.


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wing-_-nutsyesterday at 5:33 PM

You'll excuse me if I am not terribly enthusiastic about breaking all sorts of functionality to solve a security problem I've never experienced in my 25 years on linux.

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dralleyyesterday at 5:29 PM

Xorg's security (and X11 in general) is objectively terrible - this is not even a debatable question.

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preisschildyesterday at 7:37 PM

Are you seriously acting like every application having full access over other applications is not an actual security issue?

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