/proc/speakup

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

Oh,yeah.  Millions of script kiddies are just drooling over the
prospect of messing with a system running Speakup.  Such a widely known
and used product, don't ya know.  BTW, I think one already got to your
keyboard.





          Bill in Denver

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Tyler Spivey wrote:

> 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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