The best and most complete firewall is to get rid of the physical layer which is the first of 7 layers of osi networking. Of course when you physically unplug your machne off the network you can't go anywhere either yourself. What I'm getting at is that /proc/speakup isn't any more or less secure than anything else in /proc. On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:14:20 -0800, 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) >i think a keypad configuration system would be in order. use one of the unused keys, or see if numlock is on/off, and if its one way, use rate pitch and volume on the keypad. >check if scroll lock is on (no one uses it) and do other things. >scroll+num, +caps. things like that. >just my 2 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). > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Raul A. Gallegos -- raul at asmodean.net msn id: ragallegos at hotmail.com -- icq: 5283055 http://www.asmodean.net
