alt Hacker NewsLetting any GUI application capture all input and take full control of the desktop completely defeats the point of sandboxing and X11 does exactly that.
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flohofwoe • yesterday at 4:57 PM
Yawn, X11 (and similar "unsecure" desktop environments) existed for half a century and the sky hasn't fallen. I'm tired of that "will somebody think of the children/grandparents" scare mongering.
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> Defeats the point of sandboxing
Sandboxing defeats the point of said applications. If you want your computer to have no functionality, check out Figma. A clickable prototype sounds like precisely the security the world needs right now.