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

[JLMS]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:15 PM, John G Walker
<johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:07:05 +0000 Avi Greenbury
> <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> set the screensaver to require a password when you get back. It's
>> not ideal
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> And in the time that it takes for the screen saver to kick in, the pc
> is vulnerable.
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> 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",
>


There is not such a thing as user friendliness when it comes to user
interface design. A lot of usability is derived from familiarity,
which is why most Linux enthusiasts roll their eyes in despair when
confronted with a graphical user interface which is the main means to
interact with some applications, which would be otherwise well suited
for command line trickery.
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