Re: Pentium Computers Vulnerable to Attack?

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> The problem with X's way of handling video is that X runs in
> user-mode, even though it runs as user 'root'.

This is an overstatement.  This is not a problem with X, but with a
particular implementation of X.  It is a problem with XFree86 (and
possibly only XFree86 on certain OSes and/or hardware platforms; I
don't use XFree86 myself, so I don't know all that much about it).

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