From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atidenauth.den.wantweb.net([24.236.11.8]) (1929 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:15:47 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from localhost (rgallegos@localhost) by atidenauth.den.wantweb.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA32099 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:20:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:20:27 -0700 (MST) From: X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: /proc/speakup In-Reply-To: <200102150030.QAA10156@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: The thing about hackers is they normally don't attack someone to hurt them, they just do it to see if they can. For the most part uunless you are a well-known annoyance or large company with valuable secrets you dont' have to worry. Having a good firewall is good though to prevent nosy folks from seeing what you got. On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tyler Spivey wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:30:44 -0800 > From: Tyler Spivey > Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca > Subject: /proc/speakup > > immagin tis: a hacker is threating your system, and ou ar running speakup. > though theirs no way ot shut it off, with /proc/speakup you can mess it up. sinceany ser cn write t it (i think), > people could adjust your rat and stuff while they do their work, and by the time you had it running, you'd be dead. > i'm lucky i'm behind some kind of firewall myself, for when i get better internet i'll be faced with maybe a hacker or 2. > and i fi bring my braille lite home, i'll probably plug it in again with speakup. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >