Hi: Well of course, you can still be behind a firewall if you run one on the linux box itself, but your point is a good one. As much as I don't fear hackers, I am bothered that another user could arbitrarily set my speech params to something else, like the volume to minimum or something. Jim and I are debating this currently on the reflector. My current thinking is to make it all root writeable only and get users to implement sudo for non-root access, but unless you want to force this situation onto people you need to make the proc/speakup permissions settable, which they aren't at present. Geoff.
