Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> An issue to be aware of that trips up many folks running X carefully is
> that this doesn't prevent *xdm* from listening to the network, allowing
> anyone who runs X -query foo.bar.com to talk to the XDM on foo.bar.com and
> attempt to exploit any vulnerabilities it may have.

True enough. Perhaps we need to write (and contribute back) a similar
hack for xdm. In virtually every setup, xdm does not need to talk to
the network -- the ones where it is useful are rare in our context.

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