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kohtatsu on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exp...

Euh, I think a secure attention key is fine; you only have that chord sent to a designated trusted process; preventing other processes from being able to react to it and mimic an auth dialog.

Am I missing something?

lonelappde on March 24, 2020 [–]

Parent said SAK is good.

kohtatsu on March 24, 2020 | [–]

Sorry that was ambiguous wording; I was addressing their statement it was harder to do without the graphics being in the kernel.

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