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Date:      Wed, 14 Nov 2001 06:39:32 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, James Hewitt <jgh@drizzle.com>
Subject:   Re: X and DHCP
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011114063932.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200111131716.fADHGdd26719@ptavv.es.net>

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On 13-Nov-2001 Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Kind of sucks from a security perspective though.
>  
>  I'd like to state this far more strongly. I sucks huge rocks from a
>  security perspective if you are on a multiuser system as it allows any
>  user to see every key you type and everything displayed on any window,
>  text or graphical.

But if you are using a laptop it is probably totally irrelevant.

BTW the number of people using startx (which defaults to xhost authentication)
is quite large :(

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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