Why? Article says
Although not applicable to the console or remote sessions, . So you're running x-windows server on your desktop, it already knows all your key/mouse clicks, of course it let you watch raw with xev. | [reply] |
Not necessarily. There are many setups, like in a CoffeeShop, or even your home with guest accounts allowed, where someone other than you has root control, but you are just
allowed to run the XServer. So if I go to a coffee shop, and they give free linux computer access (not your computer, theirs), and they have that script running, they are grabbing everything you type....cc numbers, passwords, etc. A husband may setup a linux box at home, and record his wife's or guests Xsessions without them knowing. Or vice-versa. If root is doing that, he could also be sending the captured data out on a socket.
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So you're using computer under other-person's control, I still don't see anything scary (you're already Pwned, if he wanted, computer could shoot rockets at your behind :))
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