On May 1, 2006, at 9:57 AM, Dave Feustel wrote:
Below is a comment about X-Windows security sent to me
by a person with a lot of experience in computer security:
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Dave,
X-Windows has been known to be insecure for some time. That is to
say it can be hacked.
Now you could get the code and change the sockets that are used or
require authentication of every communication. But this would slow
it down.
You might also have "virtual" x-windows where you use 127.0.0.x as the
endpoint and refuse to allow non-local connections.
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Would implementing virtual x-windows as this person describes above
solve the X-Windows security problem on OpenBSD?
Why don't you try it and let us all know? Quit waiting on someone
else to test your weekly "exploits".
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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
