On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:55:31AM -0700, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> 
> >The primary issue is that any application that has access to the  
> >screen has *complete* access to the screen.  Any application can  
> >log your keys, looks at your forms, scrape your windows, etc.
> >
> >This is fundamental at the architectural level and simply cannot be  
> >fixed with Windows as it exists.
> 
> Much like X11, except X11 allows applications to connect to your  
> screen from anywhere on the internet, if you're not careful.
> 
> Any X11 app can listen to input devices.
> 
> Gregory
> 

Hmm ... my ignorance showing ... I thought xhost was needed to open up
attachments either by IP addr/range or indiscriminately.

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