Comment 14 for bug 1308572

Just another sidenote: I'm unaffected by this bug, because I always use xscreensaver instead of those newer unsecure rewrites.
People concerned about security might want to read the
http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getting-it-right-the-first-time-is-that-nobody-realizes-how-hard-it-was/
blog post of Jamie Zawinski who has written xscreensaver.