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Re: [LUG] Xorg 1.11 screen locking vulnerability

 

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:15:49 +0000 (GMT)
Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Gordon,

> 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...

All understood.  It still comes back to what I said though;  "...much
bigger issues to deal with".

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