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Re:Bill Gates Admits Ctrl-Alt-Delete was Mistake--Blames on IBM by csense on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:36PM (#6452297)
Isn't the Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login supposed to be in order to prevent a malicious fullscreen app from faking the login screen and tricking the user into entering their login credentials? (Since Ctrl-Alt-Delete is a keystroke that is routed directly to an OS handler at a fairly low level, a mere application can't intercept it.)

There's actually a sound reason, I can't really think of another way to prevent this attack vector.

Re:Bill Gates Admits Ctrl-Alt-Delete was Mistake--Blames on IBM by T-hawk on Thursday September 26, 2013 @01:56PM (#6452433)
The article says that. The need for a uninterceptable interrupt to reach the OS login screen is obvious.

The mistake was making it a three-key chord rather than something simpler. Compare to the single home button on iOS devices, which also goes straight to the OS and can't be intercepted by user space programs.