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Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows

From Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
Subject Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows
Date 2011-09-03 08:49 +0100
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On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:55:41 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

>> That's why you have to hit CAD to get to the login form in some versions
>> of Windows. The whole point of that secure sequence is that the OS and
>> only the OS responds.
> 
> Although I heard somewhere that that's more gimmick than guarantee,
> and that it IS possible for an app to hook CAD

It's possible to configure how CAD is handled, but this requires
Administrator privilege, so it's not exploitable (i.e. it doesn't gain you
anything you can't obtain by other means).

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Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 08:52 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-02 01:10 +0100
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-01 22:19 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-02 18:19 +1200
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Stephen Hansen <me+list/python@ixokai.io> - 2011-09-02 00:06 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 17:55 +1000
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-03 12:51 +1200
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 08:49 +0100
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-02 12:01 +0200
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows sjm <sjmsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 05:27 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:19 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:20 -0700
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Web Dreamer <webdreamer@nospam.fr> - 2011-09-02 14:38 +0200
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-09-02 13:45 +0100
  Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:26 -0700
    Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 07:47 +1000

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