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Excellent article, and a sugestion

Excellent article, and a sugestion

Posted Jun 7, 2012 10:46 UTC (Thu) by cheako (guest, #81350)
In reply to: Excellent article, and a sugestion by epa
Parent article: The life story of the XInput multitouch extension

What I really wanted to say is.

No, that's not why. SSH doesn't expose the local X server to remote systems by default because it's more secure to have this feature disabled unless the user has specific need for it. Not because X is inherently insecure, if anything an SSH client that did not do this would be insecure.


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