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Excellent article, and a sugestion

Excellent article, and a sugestion

Posted Mar 8, 2012 22:01 UTC (Thu) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852)
In reply to: Excellent article, and a sugestion by cnd
Parent article: The life story of the XInput multitouch extension

The correct solution would be XACE. Eamon Walsh worked on XACE and the SELinux module for it and had an impressive demo of a multi-level desktop where an unclassified process couldn't screen scrape or gather input intended for secret and top secret x applications (this can also be used for normal type enforcement examples as well). The problem with this though is that most X frameworks are not written to handle permission failures. So several applications had to be modified to survive permission denials in the event that they did something wrong.


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