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		ChocolateGod 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The X11 Security extension from the 1990s To me it seems the security extension is more useful for protecting elevated prompts (such as running an application as admin) than actually sandboxing between applications.

ziml77 23 hours ago [–]

If that extension never caught on, then what mechanisms are being used now to protect elevated prompts/apps?

ChocolateGod 9 hours ago | [–]

on Wayland? Flatpak and the fact that Wayland doesn't expose all windows to other windows.

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