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jojo1 on April 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Linux Security Circus: On GUI isolation

xinput is still able to read all keys when xterm's secure keyboard is enabled.

there on April 23, 2011 [–]

right, because it's not operating on x11 events, it's just directly reading xinput data. there's not much xterm can do when the underlying server is giving away all of the raw input data.

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