Bug 129929 - barcode screensaver contains offensive terms
Summary: barcode screensaver contains offensive terms
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xscreensaver
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-14 15:17 UTC by Aaron Gaudio
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-14 16:43:06 UTC
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Description Aaron Gaudio 2004-08-14 15:17:51 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2)
Gecko/20040809 Galeon/1.3.16

Description of problem:
The barcode screensaver includes the following terms, which could be
considered inappropriate to show up on a screen in many circumstances:

boobies
boobs
cock
pussy

Note I'm not trying to be a moral cop, but this could get unsuspecting
folks into trouble at their place of business. My suggestion is to
either remove the offending words altogether, or add a '-o' option
that enables them, and leave that option out of the screensaver by
default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xscreensaver-4.16-3

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run the barcode screensaver
2. Wait.
3. Eventually you'll see some of these terms.

Or, you can run 'strings /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/barcode' if you
want to scan through a list of all the words, like I did.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2004-08-14 16:43:06 UTC
Thanks for spotting this.  Should be fixed in rawhide soon.


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