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

by tomp@pipedot.org in Lack of GUI Isolation as Linux security flaw 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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