On 23/01/12 12:09, tom wrote:
On 23/01/12 11:15, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:11:08 +0000
bad apple <ifindthatinteresting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello bad,
In a nutshell, any locked screen
(xscreensaver, etc) can be bypassed
with crtl+alt+*
What's the problem? If somebody can do that (i.e. they've got
physical
access to your machine) you've got much bigger issues to deal
with.
The issue isn't really one for most of us here, it's more for
the SME/corporate environment who've made the choice to move to
using Linux, etc. on the desktop.
So for example:
People then get used to their screen auto-locking via a screen
saver after (say) 5 minutes, then needing a password to
unlock...
But one day, someone walks by the finance mangers PC, sees it
locked, thinks "ah-ha" ... They're not going to reboot it with a
recovery CD if all they want is a quick look, but if they then
unlock it via the debugging backdoor they then have easy full
access to the companies finance details...
Gordon
Doesnt seem to work on any of my setups...
Tom te tom te tom
Same.
Do corporate environments really run on test releases and use
testing repositories? I thought that would be the one
environment they wouldn't...
Gibbs
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