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xscreensaver remote unlock

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nickolai Zeldovich)
Fri Sep 25 19:10:06 1998

To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 19:09:57 EDT
From: Nickolai Zeldovich <kolya@MIT.EDU>

Hi,

Just being paranoid here, but sending the clear-text password over the network
to an xscreensaver-l'ed machine isn't very secure, it seems :) Or at least I
got the impression that's how xscreensaver works, from the manpage.

Don't know if there's any realistic reason to fix this, but I thought I'd
whine about it anyway.

-Thanks :)
Nickolai Zeldovich.

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