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Linux screen lockers are somewhat notorious for security-ish bugs like that. There's a project called XSecureLock that aims to address some of those, although I
by j-james 6y ago
Linux screen lockers are somewhat notorious for security-ish bugs like that. There's a project called XSecureLock that aims to address some of those, although I'm not sure if it fixes (or can fix) the restore-ram type bug you detailed.
https://github.com/google/xsecurelock https://github.com/google/xsecurelock
- NieDzejkob 6y agoWhen configured properly, xsecurelock does fix this type of bug. The key is to use the -l option of xss-lock, which passes a lock file descriptor to xsecurelock and waits for it to be closed before allowing the suspend. https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#automatic-locking https://github.com/google/xsecurelock#automatic-locking
- trilinearnz 6y agoThat's really useful, thank you! Great to know that others share the same security concerns around this process. I will be sure to try this out.