/proc/speakup

[raul at asmodean.net]

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 <tyler at wapvi.bc.ca>
> Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> To: speakup at 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.
>
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