Keystroke injection in X?

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by Gullible Jones, Nov 3, 2012.

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  1. A slightly old article that brings up something interesting:

    http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/04/linux-security-circus-on-gui-isolation.html

    I'd heard about the sniffing part, but not keystroke injection. How easy would it be for an unprivileged program to inject keystrokes into a privileged one?
     
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