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aussieguy1234today at 12:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

I switched to wayland mainly because screen lock on X11 is not possible to do securely. If some way is found to crash the big screen lock window in X11, the attacker gets access.


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queueberttoday at 1:06 AM

Why not use a third-party locker, like the suckless one?

https://tools.suckless.org/slock/

PunchyHamstertoday at 1:00 AM

well if some way is found to crash wayland the attacker also gets access...

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