Am 23.04.2015 um 14:59 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
On Thursday 23 of April 2015 14:53:50 Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 23.04.2015 um 14:45 schrieb Luigi Toscano:
>> On Thursday 23 of April 2015 14:32:32 Reindl Harald wrote:
>>> and what about the not savvy users which have no problem right click and
>>> lock the screen if they want and need but need to dig around to find out
>>> how to disable aggressive defaults?
>>
>> I think that there is an more global advantage with the current settings.
>>
>> Compare:
>> - annoyed *once* and locker disabled forever
>> vs
>> - device by default with no locker and potential untracked access
>
> close the lid of a notebook -> locked
Sure, you can lock manually. The point is that the default behavior helps more
when you forget closing it.
>
>> Is also the login password an aggressive default?
>
> laughable comparison
It's not. The perception of what it's needed/secure changes in time.
No windows desktop had login 15 years ago. Now it's definitely different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT released in July 1993 are 22
years and besides that it *is* because you can't prevent somebody from
shoot in his foot
if someone has his notebook on a desk in a cafe and goes to the toilet
without close the lid or lock it manually he has lost the game entirely
because even a minute is too long and so lock after 5 or 10 minutes
don#t really improve security
> there are worlds between power on a foreign machine and need to
> authenticate then force the user to move the mouse all the time to
> prevent screen locking - have fun watching a video with that stupid
Wrong example: video player knows how to make activity and not activate the
locker. You can watch your movie
does a "tail -f" of the maillog on our company server know it too?
does htop know it too?
does rdesktop watching a remote session know it too?