Re: WM enhancements to support accessible screen lock

[Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>]

On Tuesday 30 of September 2003 16:36, Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 15:35, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> ...
>
> >...
> >
> > > Clearly these are not acceptable alternatives ;-)
> >
> >  Are you sure they are worse than the third one?
> >
> > (3) make screen lock useless
> >
> >  Since I think that a screen lock that doesn't grab the input is useless.
>
> Grabbing the input is actually useless too, if by that you mean normal
> XGrabs (they offer very little security, contrary to some people's
> common notion).

 That's news to me (well, I said I'm not a security person). What's the 
problem with grabs?

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Lubos Lunak
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