Corba?

[Felix Bellaby <felix pooh u-net com>]

Tomas Ogren writes:
 > Or whatever is opening TCP-sockets when running the panel & applets...
 > They're not very hard to crash.. just telnet to the port and type yadda
 > yadda or something and it'll crash and take the whole panel with it...
 > 
 > Uhm.. what's it doing with the sockets anyway? (feels like some
 > security-hole somehow..)

CORBA does use sockets to communicate and gnome does not try to
make them secure. I am sure that the connections will be made a good 
deal safer once we are confident that they are working properly. Alpha
software is inheritently insecure because of the possible bugs.

Felix