[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#677682: Bug#677682: xfce4: Waking up from hibernation shows what's open before being locked

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On ven., 2012-12-28 at 10:09 -0800, Mar Mel wrote:
> Showing the contents of the desktop/windows on a system that is supposed to be
> locked is a serious security issue. 
> 
> I am surprised to find this behavior in the current xscreensaver and more
> surprised to see this listed as a "minor" severity bug here on Debian.
> 
> This same problematic behavior occurred a few years ago with Ubuntu and
> gnome-screensaver. It was fixed shortly thereafter.
> 
> Ubuntu took the problem very seriously and the bug in Launchpad was listed as
> "critical":
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/390989
> 
> Upstream gnome also assigned the bug a severity of "critical":
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654746
> 
> I hope this can be addressed in the current Debian Wheezy with Xfce4.

Since nobody took care to answer my question, I guess no. Unless you can
reproduce this and can actually provide the information I asked, please
refrain from messing with bug reports from other people, it just makes
noise.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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