Xsecurity [was Re: OpenSSH Re: rawhide report: 20040608 changes]

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 09:32:09PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Not sure I understand that bug fully, but yes I doubt we'll do any
> fixing of apps to work with XSECURITY in the short term. I imagine
> xclock is the very tiniest tip of the iceberg. ;-)

XSECURITY blocks shape extension. Its one of the cases where reading your
pixmap would allow you to snoop on things as well as allow you to play
tricks (eg stealing keypresses with a giant invisible window)