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[Seth <1308572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@kristian-erik-hermansen Cool find, but utterly irrelevant here. That
bug is about users blindly trusting the screen to auto-lock (which they
_should be able to_).

This bug is about the trust being broken even after they _verified_ that
they had _explicitly_ locked their screens. That's (a) a very different
issue (b) a very different severity of failure.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04: security problem in the lock screen

Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  affects ubuntu

  Hello,
  I am running Ubuntu 14.04 with all the packages updated.
  When the screen is locked with password, if I hold ENTER after some
  seconds the screen freezes and the lock screen crashes. After that I
  have the computer fully unlocked.

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  Marco Agnese

  This bug is about the lockscreen being bypassed when unity
  crashes/restarts, which is a critcal security issue. The crash will be
  handled from bug 1308750

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