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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.

In the real world, any secure desktop solution is going to require a reliable execution environment ("security is only as good as your weakest link"). If you don't trust the user to properly handle that, then you must ensure they don't do anything stupid or dangerous to themselves by restricting what they can do. For desktop applications this usually means to execute them in a sandbox (such as Flatpak). QubeOS tries to do something similar, but stumbles upon the inherently insecure design of the X Server, and has to work around it running separate X server instances for each unreliable X client.




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