It's a shame that data-loss wasn't reason enough to get it fixed.  It
took a much more obscure security bug, one that's very unlikely to occur
in the real world.  The data-loss angle is an everyday risk: press the
power button, expecting to get prompted to shutdown, and watch all your
X apps get killed, instead.

Hey, I'm glad they fixed the security aspect, but let's be realistic
here: If a user has the ability to run processes on the system, and the
system is a laptop or desktop running KDE 4, most likely the user has
physical access to the system, and he could snoop-on or erase data
without having to jump through such obscure hoops.  On the other hand,
the data-loss aspect could happen because of a cat or a dog or a two-
year-old--or a forgetful adult.

*sigh*  Priorities...

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