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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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