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pyxtrlock is deprecated, unmaintained and insecure!
by Leon Weber 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Dear users, Please note that pyxtrlock is deprecated, unmaintained and insecure! There is at least one known vulnerability, which is that on Wayland systems, only X applications are locked, while pyxtrlock gives the impression to lock all applications. Therefore, we do not recommend to use pyxtrlock on Wayland systems. However, we do not intend to develop pyxtrlock any further. This includes fixes for any vulnerabilities that may be discovered in the future. Therefore, we do not recommend to use pyxtrlock on any systems. The README.md file has been updated accordingly. This mailing list will be closed following this email. We thank you for your interest and will leave the Github repository online in case anyone would like to maintain a fork in the future. The pyxtrlock maintainers

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pyxtrlock security release 0.4
by Leon Weber 07 Mar '19

07 Mar '19

pyxtrlock version 0.4 has been released today. This is a security release that adds a check to ensure pyxtrlock is run in an X11 session. If a non-X11 session, such as Wayland, is detected, pyxtrlock will now abort with an error message without displaying the lock symbol. This has become necessary as pyxtrlock cannot securely lock non-X11 sessions that are now run by default on some distributions. In that case, pyxtrlock would give a false security impression by displaying the lock icon, while input to non-X11 windows is not actually locked. We recommend to update your pyxtrlock packages. The new release is available at [1]. We thank Github user javixeneize for reporting this issue. [2] [1] https://github.com/leonnnn/pyxtrlock/releases/tag/0.4 [2] https://github.com/leonnnn/pyxtrlock/issues/21

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[pyxtrlock] Administrative changes to the mailing list
by Jonas Wielicki 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

Dear subscribers, To keep up with the recent developments in email infrastructure (namely DKIM signatures), the following changes will be made to the mailing list software: * The subject prefix [pyxtrlock] will not be prepended to new messages anymore (nor will the software make any other changes to subjects). * No body amendmends will be made (thus, no footer lines will be written on messages). If you have been filtering your mail using the Subject line, you should switch to filtering on the List-Id header, which will still be present and whose value is: User and devel mailing list for pyxtrlock <pyxtrlock.lists.zombofant.net> (usually, filtering for the parts in <> is enough) best regards, Jonas Wielicki

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[pyxtrlock] Test, please ignore
by Leon Weber 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

F(x) = ∫dxx²

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