Re: Record Extension Not Found
Re: Record Extension Not Found
- Subject: Re: Record Extension Not Found
- From: George Peter Staplin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:38 -0700
Quoted Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>:
On Nov 27, 2008, at 09:57, Alfredo Di Napoli wrote:
Hi guys :)
I have a problem with the RECORD extension.
I'm doing a research for my University thesis about keylogging and
i've downloaded the simple python keylogger but during the
execution I get the following error:
No RECORD Extension Found. This error is raised from pyxhook
library, wich raises the Xlib.display error. But this is not
important.
Yeah, I punted from X11 on OSX for security concerns, and upstream
removed it by default in 1.5 and I think it's gone for good in 1.6.
That's disappointing. What is the proposed replacement?
What is the specific security concern, and couldn't we disable it by
default or provide a preference option?
The record and test extensions do things that you can't realistically
duplicate without them, and they are invaluable to the software
testing community. Some open source software I wrote is used in
industry that uses the record and test extensions.
X security is a concern, but when any X application can also grab keys
and the pointer, and take screenshots of another application's
windows, there are a lot of security issues that can occur. X was
designed in a different time. The best way of protecting ourselves at
the moment is to not use untrusted clients. I realize with the mass
of open source software, it's not realistic to audit all code, so
there's a certain degree of trust.
George
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