Re: Document Centricity in GNOME [LONG]

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

famrom@idecnet.com (Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero) writes:

> >You'll want to do some X sandboxing as well (because otherwise, the
> >app will be able to run your other programs, monitor all keystrokes,
> 
> I think that like the rest of tasks, it will run only under dummy UID. The
> keystrokes is a serious problem, yes, but not the run of other apps

What I meant was that if a program under a different UID had access to
your X server, it could send fake events and remote control anything
you're running, find you xterm, start things there, etc.

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