Security issue in Terminal

[Oscar]

Suck your dick motherfuckers, you've never helped me with my problem, i
hate you, i just wanna make the screen working on XFCE!!!!!

2012/3/7 Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org>

> * Brian Waters <brianmwaters at gmail.com> [2012-03-07 19:49]:
> > 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.
>
> Switching to xterm will not gain you any additional security as
> the scrollback memory can be swapped out and thus end up on disk,
> too. If you deal with any sensitive documents where that becomes
> an issue you need to encrypt your filesystems, everything else is
> just eyewash and pseudosecurity.
>
> > A nice way that VTE could handle this would be to have a configure
> > option for that behavior, which could be added to our terminal and
> > others. Whether or not that makes sense given the way scrollback is
> > implemented, I don't know. We'll see!
>
> It already has, you can disable the scrollback buffer in Terminal
> preferences.
> --
> Guido Berhoerster
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