[PATCH xinit 0/1] startx: Pass "-nolisten tcp" by default

Colin Harrison colin.harrison at virgin.net
Fri Sep 12 09:46:00 PDT 2014


Hi,

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
"Allowing people to connect to your machine and throw crap at it to trigger
all our overflows is simply stupid."

If they on your local private network (AKA your 'private cloud')...you at
least  know who they are, get bug reports and can maybe even help fix :)
I would never propose using X11 network transparency over a public internet
or even though a bridge or router. Anyway SSH exposes bugs as well. In fact
any connection can!

Thanks,
Colin Harrison




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