Comment 14F X and Windows use different models

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Lack of GUI Isolation as Linux security flaw

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X and Windows use different models (Score: 2, Informative)

by tomp@pipedot.org on 2014-04-19 02:22 (#14F)

X and Windows are different. Under X the display belongs to the user not the system. That's not a security flaw, it's a design decision. It's also why it's so easy for X to display programs that are running on other systems and so hard to view desktops running on other systems.

Sure things like VNC blur the distinction, but it's still there.

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2014-04-22 02:00 Informative +1 boioioing@pipedot.org

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