Semi-OT: Security advice, please

[Kevin Kofler]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> Could these lines have been caused by crashing applications?

The .lock files, probably. The .hmac files, no, they are security 
signatures: if you enable "FIPS mode", those signatures are validated to 
make sure security libraries are not compromised (but that feature is not 
enabled by default in Fedora). Not sure what the other dotfiles are.

        Kevin Kofler