People should avoid Wayland environments which use wlroots as the compositor such as Sway, since wlroots adds many of X11 weaknesses back including the ability for apps to record each other without prompting for permission.

PrivSec has an unfortunate habit of presenting their criticisms as factual instead of a matter of opinion. I’m happy with the improvements made in Linux desktop environment security wrt screenshot privileges - #3 by redoomed1 which cover GNOME’s design without discouraging the use of sway or others…

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