Bug#433427: Critical privacy issue in gnome-screensaver - personal pictures may be shown

Artyom artyomtnk at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 17 11:48:25 UTC 2007


Hello,

Ok,
I'll check this on new user when I'll get home.
Maybe your are right and it is not the _default_
screen saver in the system and I had forget
something.

However, even if this is not the "default" one,
there is a screen saver that runs random screen
savers -- the configuration that and may be
chosen and thus cause a serious security trouble
when one of them accidentally will disclose some
images.

I mean, a user may choose one of the options
random screen saver, when he is not *aware* of the
situation that one of the random screen savers 
may show his private images. This images
may be shown in unexpected moment - at work/home
and cause real troubles.

I think, the screen saver that shows images from
home folder (I think ~/Pictures) must not be
in list of random screen savers.

Artyom

P.S.: I had such situation, there was nothing bad
      in the shown images, however it was still
      not pleasant.






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