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> including accessing passwords as they are being typed. If you're running X you don't even need root :(
by staticassertion 6y ago
> including accessing passwords as they are being typed.
If you're running X you don't even need root :(
- lmilcin 6y agoThat's not necessarily true. You can run X as user. You can run X locally and run the app on remote server using local X server over SSH tunnel using SSH keys. I do this about as frequently as I need to install something on remote server that has graphical installer. Not sure why people think thought this is a good idea but a huge amount of commercial software in 2000s had that kind of installation process.
- icedchai 6y agoCertain OSes, one of them being SGI IRIX 5.x, used to ship with X security disabled. This meant your display was completely open to the world, the equivalent of running "xhost +" In the 90's, firewalls were uncommon, so literally anyone on the Internet could sniff your keyboard or pop up windows on your display. Or, better yet, xmelt it. This resulted in LOTS of mayhem.
- elygre 6y agoMany years ago, a young consultant was working at a client site on a SunOS box. Suddenly, the machine started playing the, let's call it the restaurant scene, from "When Harry met Sally." Yeah, it got awkward real fast...