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by throwaway7356 31 days ago
> In practice the only place it shows up is if you are using "ssh -X". That uses the security extension by default. Which is why there is also a "ssh -Y" that disables it for applications that it breaks.

Unless your distro changes the default to make "ssh -X" and "ssh -Y" behave the same which popular distributions do.