<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Chuck Anderson <<a href="mailto:cra@wpi.edu">cra@wpi.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:34:16AM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > If someone can come up with a scenario where you really need zap, and > not just vt switch and/or logout dialog, I'm eager to hear it. If you > can come up with one that isn't "some broken application took a server > grab and won't give it back", I'll even be interested. It serves as a Secure Attention Key--a way to assure that you are getting the "real" login screen and not a trojan that is trying to capture your login password. </blockquote><div> Following that thread of logic... How would I know that the 'secure attention key' hadn't also been trojan'ed? From my point of view, I treat Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as a 'programmer/debugging' facility only. (As a matter of fact, in 20+ years of using X I've only ever tried it once (last week), and it didn't help me.) </div></div>