I set the security flag because there's clearly information disclosure
here - in this instance it was me logging in to a computer only I had
previously used, so I saw items from my own prior sessions. In other
circumstances, this might be a shared machine and the person seeing my
desktop icons and fragments of windows I had used in prior sessions
might be less well-intentioned.

Note also that it is not necessarily only the previous session that is
disclosed - there have been instances where I've recognised notification
bubbles from several days previous, despite having rebooted in the
interim. I shudder to think what might happen if I were to present at a
public conference and have fragments of the Ubuntu One source or pages
from Canonical's internal wiki flashed on the projector.

I urge you to reconsider.

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