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Subject: Internally initiated outbound X traffic
From: John Larson <jlarson @ parc . xerox . com>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 19:52:36 PDT
To: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
Cc: JLarson @ parc . xerox . com

A question has come up here whether there are any known security problems 
with allowing internally initiated X windows traffic to an external machine 
(ie. pop up an X-window tool on external machine).

Are there any known security problems with allowing X in the outbound
direction ?  

Thanks,

John Larson
Xerox PARC



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