On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:40:45PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >No idea if it even compiles nowadays, especially on OpenBSD, though. And > >I don't know how this thing talks to video cards. Theo seems to indicate > >that working with video cards pretty much requires a good dose of > >'evil'. > > May be we just run a workstation dedicated to remotely connect to other > workstations, or servers that run X server only where it's needed and > that have no video card in these servers or workstations! (:> > > May be I will just continue and stick with the ssh terminal only.
That would make the workstation - which would be running the X server - a quite interesting target. Not that good an idea, I think. Then again, don't overestimate the danger of X either - it's certainly an interesting way of breaking into a system, and might be dangerous given the proper set of circumstances, but for many systems more conventional attacks (like weak passwords+sshd) are more deserving of our worries. Joachim