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It is hard to write a good screenlock program

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Subject: It is hard to write a good screenlock program
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:52:02+0000
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 by: 823845989 - Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:52 UTC

Demonstrated again by Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1777415

All tested versions are vulnerable to bypassing the lockscreen under certain circumstances.

I don't know, I started with Ubuntu when I migrated from Windows, but the distro is not that solid...

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Subject: Re: It is hard to write a good screenlock program
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 by: AnonUser - Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:02 UTC

To: 823845989
823845989 wrote:

> I don't know, I started with Ubuntu when I migrated from Windows, but the
distro is not that solid...

I started way back in early 90s with Slackware. I never thought of a
screenlock as security beyond keeping my wife from taking a look around.

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 by: 43224 - Thu, 31 Jan 2019 20:18 UTC

>I never thought of a screenlock as security beyond keeping my wife from taking a look around.

How did you lock your sessions ? Or you just used cli ?

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 by: AnonUser - Thu, 31 Jan 2019 23:38 UTC

To: 43224
43224 wrote:

>>I never thought of a screenlock as security beyond keeping my wife from
taking a look around.

> How did you lock your sessions ? Or you just used cli ?

> Posted on def4

Just the screensaver lock in whatever gui I was using at the time. I
wouldn't trust anything important to that.

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