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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KLineEdit Security
From:       "Martin T. Sandsmark" <sandsmark () samfundet ! no>
Date:       2009-05-21 16:57:43
Message-ID: 200905211857.43610.sandsmark () samfundet ! no
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On Thursday 21. May 2009 18:46:02 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> The (only really hard and) proper solution to this is btw. an encrypted
> keyboard -> app chain, but there're few keyboards that can encrypt strokes
> (and i don't even know whether X11 supports such at all, so you'd have to
> bring your own keyboard driver)

That won't help either if someone can run stuff as the user, as it is just a 
matter of setting LD_PRELOAD to something nasty.

You can't trust a compromised account, period.

-- 
martin t. sandsmark


 
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