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Subject: Re: NG report of "Security hole in GNOME"
From: Omachonu Ogali (oogaliintranova.net)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 17:57:56 CST

That's completely untrue. .ICEauthority has been around for a while and if
you peek at it you'll see it contains authentication information for the X
server, sort of like an xhost (I think). Do man iceauth to read on it
more, and do us a favor and relay this back to the newsgroup...

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Bengt Richter wrote:

> The following appeared on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:
> Any details?
> ------------------
> FreeBSD users should be aware that the stable ports of GNOME
> will install a spy file named .ICEauthority and information
> about your system will be transmitted every time a GNOME function
> is invoked.
>
>
> 

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