From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:06:59 +0000

Re: speed question

Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> There must be some serious security concerns with that. Not just from
> deliberate attacks, but from buggy, transparent window using apps that
> can *see* what's going on underneath?

What security? The security in X is in restricting who's allowed
to connect to the X server.
Once you are connected you can read screen contents, write screen
contents, send events, steal events or peek at events without anyone
noticing.

//Marcus
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