News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought. Parent comment

Re:XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought by icedchai on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @12:20PM (#25749992)
Back in the 90's, some machines shipped with X authentication disabled, open to the world (SGI IRIX 5.x was one of these.) Back then, few people used firewalls. X11 keyboard sniffing was very common in some circles.
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.