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

[Avi Greenbury]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:15:08 +0000
John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

Yup. It's the only automatic one I know of, though. And, like I say, I
don't think there's anything particularly better for any other platform.

> 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",

I don't think it's any more difficult to discover than any of what we
tend to call user friendly about linux:

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+lock+screen

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