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		talldayo on Oct 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Improving Xwayland window resizing > the damage they could do is hardly mitigated by Wayland. I disagree. How do you hijack interprocess communication on a Wayland device? I can tell you in very certain steps how to manipulate an x11 client but outside hijacking /dev/ I can't imagine a similar attack on Wayland.

lupusreal on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

If you aren't sandboxes you can edit the user's environment to swap out their programs with backdoored copies.

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