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Re: [tlug] Running without Gnome/KDE/xfce/whatever. (was: Ubuntu 16.04-LTS Japanese Text Input)



Attila Kinali writes:

 > But [remote X access security] was mostly solved by ssh and its
 > x-forwarding a looong time ago.

Not really.  It solves the problem of snooping on the X protocol
stream.  But it doesn't solve the problem of evil remote clients
snooping on other clients' windows via X protocol.  That's why ssh -x
has a concept of "trusted clients".

*sigh* Security is *very* hard....



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