Security issue in Terminal

[Kevin Chadwick]

> > Whether or not it's a security issue generally is definitely
> > debatable. For certain users, though, it's definitely an issue and I
> > hope they would switch to xterm or something similar for the time
> > being.
> [snip]
> 
> You could keep /tmp in RAM as a workaround. And disable swap or at
> least encrypt it, otherwise you'll end up with a similar problem
> sooner or later.
> 

That's not a work around as the data would still be there until the
power was pulled. Use xterm. For some unknown reason I always have
used xterm for important things until recently.