Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Fulko Hew]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:34:16AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > If someone can come up with a scenario where you really need zap, and
> > not just vt switch and/or logout dialog, I'm eager to hear it.  If you
> > can come up with one that isn't "some broken application took a server
> > grab and won't give it back", I'll even be interested.
>
> It serves as a Secure Attention Key--a way to assure that you are
> getting the "real" login screen and not a trojan that is trying to
> capture your login password.
>

Following that thread of logic...

How would I know that the 'secure attention key' hadn't also been trojan'ed?


>From my point of view, I treat Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as a
'programmer/debugging'
facility only. (As a matter of fact, in 20+ years of using X I've only ever
tried it
once (last week), and it didn't help me.)
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