Gräßlin: Looking at the Security of Plasma/Wayland

Martin Gräßlin looks at the security of the Plasma desktop running under Wayland; it’s better than X11, but with some ground yet to cover. “Now imagine you want to write a key logger in a Plasma/Wayland world. How would you do it? I asked myself this question recently, thought about it, found a possible solution and had a key logger in less than 10 minutes: ouch.“