From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from uq.net.au(fox.uq.net.au[203.101.255.1]) (1505 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 01:58:22 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from data.home (mail@dyn-7-250.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.7.250]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA24653 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:58:19 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14TIMq-0003R8-00; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:58:16 +1000 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:58:16 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: Subject: re: /proc/speakup In-Reply-To: <200102150214.SAA10901@viper.wapvi.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tyler Spivey wrote: > /proc/speakup was a bad idea. because: 1. if a hacker gained root, you > couldn't turn off the net or something without speech. (if someone shut > it off) Yeah I could, pull the plug out. That'd stop 'em. > i think a keypad configuration system would be in order. use one of the This is no good, you couldn't configure your system to automatically load your desired settings (refer to today's earlier posts). Anyway, someone can easily load in a bogus keymap, which would hurt more than just having no speech. > sents. and i'm looking for someone that can give me free synths, (i > almost had one, but the guy got really mad and ignores me). I'll have it. Geoff.