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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Fri Sep 12 08:43:37 PDT 2014


On 09/12/14 04:54 AM, Colin Harrison wrote:
> 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!

Frankly, privacy of the protocol data is less important to me than the
huge number of bugs in our protocol encoding/decoding code.  Allowing
people to connect to your machine and throw crap at it to trigger all
our overflows is simply stupid.

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