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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 months ago

      This is such a dumb comment. Jesus.

      “I thought passwords were meant to improve security! So how come I got a virus???”

        • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
          5·
          9 months ago

          Um, this is like saying full disk encryption is false advertising, because it doesn’t prevent people blowing up your apartment complex. LOL.

          Sorry, dude, I cannot resist. No hate to you, we all need to start from somewhere.

        • ProgrammingSocks
          11·
          9 months ago

          Wayland isn’t a product. You’re gonna have to get your mind out of capitalism to understand the free software community.

    • Klara@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      9 months ago

      This is different from the Wayland security model, as Wayland restricts the ability for clients to modify and read from other clients arbitrarily. This is an extension to a Wayland compositor, and as all extensions do, it contains code which runs on your system. Any code, unless sandboxed, can access your filesystem no matter if it’s run under Wayland, X11, or no windowing system at all for that matter.

      • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        It is not related to Wayland or the compositor in any way. This is a plasmashell extension.

        Similar caveats do apply to KWin scripts and effects though

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It does, when the bad actor is a program you run, and other open windows contain sensitive content.

      Here the bad actor is code being loaded as an extension to the compositor. A bit like a kernel module, which can bypass file access permissions if it wants.