Aishou/wayland-keylogger
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Proof-of-concept Wayland keylogger
8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2019-04-23 · latest 2025-11-02
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…when you run the programs as the same user so nobody bothered (and no: Wayland does not help: https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger ) 2.) It is more fun to simply pretend it is unfixable broken and write something new (something any…
comment by uecker · 2025-11-02 · in X.org Security Advisory: multiple security issues X.Org X server and Xwayland -
Indeed https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
comment by uecker · 2025-08-05 · in The X11 Security extension from the 1990s -
…LD_PRELOAD attacks[0], and typically your user account has permission to read ~/.ssh/id_rsa. [0] https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
comment by slimsag · 2022-12-27 · in Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016) -
Is this really a good idea considering the security issues with Wayland?[1] [1] https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
comment by Klwohu · 2021-03-07 · in Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland -
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Wayland Keyloggerstory by Jkvngt · 2021-01-30 · 119 comments
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…LD_PRELOAD is the problem here. Yet the author of TFA seems to suggest that this is the issue. [1]: https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
comment by abjKT26nO8 · 2020-05-12 · in Linux (In)Security -
…the holes that did get patched, it's going to be very hard to make any more progress. [0]: https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger
comment by danShumway · 2020-04-10 · in Make Linux Fast Again (2019) -
Wayland is insufficient in and of itself to prevent keylogging. https://github.com/Aishou/wayland-keylogger At present Linux desktops aren't very secure against user installed malicious software. It is however fortunate that most software…
comment by michaelmrose · 2019-04-23 · in Why don't we have Wayland on Raspberry Pi yet? (2018)