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[Aaron Peterson <myusualnickname@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a security vulnerability ***

Public security bug reported:

brushing a finger on a trackpad should NEVER result in a click action.
There is no reason for this, and it is highly disorienting for most of
the people I know when random things happen on their computers.  My
novice friends fear computers because of random things happening, and
many moderate people switch to external mice because of this bug.

Note, this highly disturbing behavior is also default in windows, and is
called tapping.  Macs also have a similar thing, but they at least have
their trackpad click, but it's still wrong.

Basically,

1. we need tapping to be off by default,  This will likely require a
source modification to the syntaptics module, and not just a change in
the config file, because it's a multi step config file change (something
about dpms)

and for the few people who like it, 
2. the option to toggle it on should be made easy.   Right now it's googling and editing an Xorg config file, so everytime we have to regenerate an x config, it comes back up!


This is a security vulnerability, I have seen it happen on more than just me and my system, people click objects that they wern't trying to, and if it's an executable, or file that gets loaded,  the system gets compromised...  also people are more likely to submit web information and submit erroneous data into forms.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Visibility changed to: Public

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bumping trackpad results in click (tapping) syntaptics
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382071
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