[Info-vax] X protocol security issues, was: Re: Availability Manager

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-03-24, G Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.invalid> wrote:
>
> [I think I stopped using remote X connections to my workstation at
> some point when I started thinking about the holes in X that make
> it vulnerable to keystroke monitoring.  Accessing VMS is OK - it's
> my own machine - but anywhere else and I have reservations.  Maybe
> that's what that trusted X connection is supposed to be about?]
>

If you read the ssh man page on Linux, you will see that these issues are
explicitly documented - you won't find me doing X connections when I don't
control both ends of the link. :-)

Simon.

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