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by anarcat 1311 days ago
as mentioned in the fine article, it looks like many distros patched this out already, for some reason. Debian has that default flipped since Debian squeeze, published in 2011:

https://sources.debian.org/src/xterm/261-1/debian/changelog/...

so yeah, kind of a big deal, except not really, looks like some folks were already careful with that possibly dangerous setting. :)