I think this bug report is invalid. For several years Web browsers have
insisted on showing the address bar, or the status bar, or both, in any
popup window as a way of distinguishing it from native application
windows. Can you provide a demo which avoids this security measure?

If it was possible to fake the gksudo window in this way it would also
be possible to fake the PolicyKit dialog, or Seahorse's Change Password
dialog, or the password dialogs from Evolution or Thunderbird or Pidgin
or any other program that uses passwords, in exactly the same way. So
the problem would still need to be fixed in the Web browser.

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[security] update-notifier auto popups maybe spoofed by the webbrowser
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/370248
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