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Another relevant short story: “I (28M) created a deepfake girlfriend and now my parents think we’re getting married” by Fonda Lee (2019) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614942/d…

Yes. > alias gmail='mutt -F ~/.mutt/muttrc_imap_gmail'

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It depends on who your publisher and target audience is. See this recent article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19708789

It's a blatant lie because the author of that code snippet is trying to trick the reader into thinking that Wayland's isolation somehow has been broken, but that's not true at all.…

That link is a blatant lie. Redirect each wayland client's stderr to a different term and you will see that the process (keyboard/mice input + graphics output) isolation is still w…

The headline is wrong. "Dreams Before the Start of Time" by Anne Charnock is the 2018 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award: https://www.clarkeaward.com/2018-winner/ They must be re…

I fail to see how it can help in this case. The most fine-grained access you can achieve with SELinux are objects such as files or ports. What you need here is the ability to check…

About how to use SELinux to ensure that a process with certain PID is running the intended executable and that it hasn't been tampered by the user (i.e. a rogue app running with us…

I haven't heard about that, can you please provide a link?

The reason that Wayland (or X11) protocol uses Unix sockets for communications is because there is not a hierarchical relationship between a client process and the server process (…

How the wayland server and the shell are going to share (or agree to) that file descriptors or secrets in the first place? Or how can you ensure that the shell is not a rogue one?

> However the way Wayland (or its broader ecosystem) "fixes" security is just stupid. Instead of using a fine grained whitelisting based permission system to grant different client…