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Little drummer boy

For reasons that are not particularly interesting, I found myself reading the XScreensaver FAQ last night, which answers the question, “The unlock dialog is funny looking, why not use GTK?” That led me to JWZ’s mini-rant On Toolkits, which reminded me of this ancient vulnerability in the OS X screensaver where you could unlock the screen by typing 1280 characters in the password dialog. I remember reading about it at the time, but I never really understood how people found bugs like this until I had kids.

Or cats, for that matter.

— Robbert Broersma
The ironic thing is, after reading those jwz links and replacing the KDE screensaver with Xscreensaver as per the instructions in the FAQ, I locked the session, deliberately entered the wrong password a few times, and wound up–and I swear this is the truth–crashing Xscreensaver and reclaiming the desktop.

— Anonymous
Did you file a bug?

— Mark
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— Anonymous
I’ll see your comment, and raise you an “overflow:hidden”.

— Mark

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