Comment Comment by enriquto > an application that has access to your display can do stuff with other applications.Well, of course, that's the whole point of using "applications", isn't it? To change the state of your data!Regardless of x11/wayland, the application "vim" can read (and change!) all files in my home dir. Do you also consider that a security issue?If you want to run some weird application that you don't trust, you should run it inside a container. But that has nothing to do with display systems. parent enriquto 2 years ago
Well, of course, that's the whole point of using "applications", isn't it? To change the state of your data!
Regardless of x11/wayland, the application "vim" can read (and change!) all files in my home dir. Do you also consider that a security issue?
If you want to run some weird application that you don't trust, you should run it inside a container. But that has nothing to do with display systems.