[Gllug] MS grumbles (was: take a lookat my photos on Facebook)

Fri Nov 6 12:15:08 UTC 2009

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:07:05 +0000 Avi Greenbury
<avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:

> set the screensaver to require a password when you get back. It's
> not ideal

And in the time that it takes for the screen saver to kick in, the pc
is vulnerable.

Thanks for all those who posted the ctl-alt-del trick. Is this part of
Microsoft's "security through obscurity" philosophy: security is
obscured? I'm used to KDE's icon to lock my screen. I tend to think
this sort of thing is more "user-friendly",

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 All the best,
 John
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