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Re: [suse-kde] Mozilla Firefox Won't Start (DISREGARD - FIXED)
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:34:15 +0200
  • Message-id: <200408191934.15982.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 19 August 2004 19:30, Paul Foerster wrote:
> > Second, from a security standpoint, "xhost +" and "xhost +local:" do
> > equivalent damage
>
> ... well, not quite. If this is your PC connected to the internet then
> the difference is significant.

OK, I was talking about 9.1, where X doesn't listen to the net. In that case
the two are identical. With tcp turned on I agree that "xhost +" is
considerably worse

> ... if this is true then there's only one alternative: Download it,
> disconnect from the net, install it and then reconnect to the net. :-)

Agreed 100%

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