> Who knows what bugs wait lurking in there; who knows which particular combinations of which libraries are a security-bug timebomb. [...] The GTK and GNOME libraries have never been security-audited to the extent that their maintainers would be willing to make the claim, "under no circumstances will this library ever crash."
> gnome-screensaver is brand new, bug-ridden, unreliable, and a security disaster waiting to happen
> gnome-screensaver is brand new, bug-ridden, unreliable, and a security disaster waiting to happen
Looks like jwz has been vindicated here.
References: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver