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. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
