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by ndsipa_pomu 164 days ago
Not so much security theater as a large number of exploits were disguised as .scr files as it was easy to trick a user into downloading one and then it would run with full system access
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Restrict .scr to run as an unprivileged user without network or filesystem access, that always launches the system login/unlock on exit?

This seems better than having a program that does random web requests to put ads on the lock screen.