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Re: Windows Spotlight shows picture information data on lock screen of one PC, but not others.

From	Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Windows Spotlight shows picture information data on lock screen of one PC, but not others.
Date	2025-02-23 20:25 +0000
Organization	NOYB
Message-ID	<vpg3p0.k78.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> >  
> >> Disabling the requirement for Ctrl+Alt+Del is a tweak used by those
> >> that don't give a gnat's fart about securing their host, and the
> >> same folks that configure Windows to automatically login, so they
> >> don't ever have to bother with entering their login credentials (and
> >> later they forget what they were since they never use them).
> > 
> > Lighten up, will you!? There *is* no "Disabling the requirement for
> > Ctrl+Alt+Del", it's off by default.
> 
> Confused by that statement.  You mention how to use a policy to change
> the Ctrl+Alt+Default requirement, you mention there is a "default"
> (which means other choices exist), yet you now say say there is no
> disable.  There is, there is, but there isn't?

  Sigh! Again you're mixing up posters. Java Jive mentioned how to use a
policy. I mentioned netplwiz and the 'Secure sign-in' tick-mark
("Require users to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete") in that applet is off by
default. So your condescending comment "Disabling the requirement for
Ctrl+Alt+Del" does not apply (You can't 'disable' something which is
off, you can only enable it.).

> You mentioned using the security policy editor, but not all editions of
> Windows have that.  For those without gpedit.msc, the policy is exposed
> by using netplwiz.exe (Control Panel "User Accounts" applet).
> Thankfully that setting does not incorporate a double negative.

  You're still confusing me with Java Jive and 'telling' me things
(netplwiz), which *I* brought up.

> > So if your advice would be to enable it, that would be fine. But your
> > condescending "those that don't give a gnat's fart about securing
> > their host" (and the equally insulting rest), is both uncalled for
> > and incorrect.
> 
> Those points identify users that REDUCE security.

  Nope, it doesn't, because your premise - users disabling the need for
Ctrl+Alt+Delete - is invalid. So you're belittling users which don't
exist for doing things that they can't do.

>						     They don't want the
> inconvenience (having to login) of a secure host hence my equal but
> derogatory they "don't give a gnat's fart about securing their host".  I
> could've said "they don't want the inconvenience of a secure host", but
> obviously you and I have opinions about their choices, and I expressed
> mine with a berating tone.

  Derogatory, berating, but most importantly *wrong*, i.e. based on a
false premise.

> > And no, I do *not* use 'Secure sign-in' and yes, I *do* use Windows
> > Spotlight.
> 
> So, you're condemning Microsoft for making required sign-ins more secure
> by not providing a workaround via Spotlight.

  Huh!? How on earth do you come up with these inane conclusions/
assumptions? I'm not using 'Secure sign-in', Java Jive is.

>					       Seems Microsoft did use
> your scientific method: not requiring sign-in is insecure, so no point
> in securing Spotlight, either.

  You got that one wrong as well. Congratulations!

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