Bug#677186: gnome-shell: It's possible to turn off wifi networking using keyboard fn when session locked

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sun Jun 24 21:24:44 UTC 2012


(Please use a MUA that honors correctly the Reply-To field, thanks.)

Le dimanche 24 juin 2012 à 23:17 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez a
écrit : 
> But following your idea, Why we do session-locking if anyone could
> stop the machine, start with a LIVE-CD and replace root password, or
> even take the HD with him??? or even the entire laptop!

Indeed. Which is why you should never leave your laptop unattended long
enough for any of this to happen unless the disk is encrypted.

> Do you want to have a better OS? I want, and in my honest opinion this
> kind of stupid things improve the OS.

Trying to restrict what people can do with the hardware when they
already have direct access to it is a very pointless way of improving
the OS.

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