[PATCH xinit 0/1] startx: Pass "-nolisten tcp" by default

[Colin Harrison]

Hi,

Make Kettenis wrote:
'use "ssh -X" to achieve X11 network transparency'

even that is old school...
"ssh -2 -X" is surely the way to go?

Encryption is good when you have control of the keys and protocols used (or
know all who can access/use them)...but new school  'Apps' send your
personal data, over public networks, without you knowing what is being
encrypted, to massive 'potentially Orwellian' data centres. So I don't think
X11 network transparency is much of a threat to your privacy, in 'this time
and age', there is an elephant in the room! Reduction of the
established/proven complexity of 'consumer' software potentially forces you
to use 'cloud services' or rent on-line software to do real work (just look
at the Teletubby GUIs of modern 'consumer' operating systems with their
'swarms' of useless highly intrusive apps)

Fessing up: I have a vested interest in producing X servers for private
companies and individuals, not producing databases and servers for huge
anonymous data centres!

Cheers,
Colin Harrison