Terminal hacking

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Wed Aug 30 04:12:20 AEST 1989


 >There's got to be a million such holes in each and every flavor of
 >Unix one might work under.  Closing known ones, like ``finger,'' is
 >certainly a good idea, but the best idea would be to redesign
 >terminals to greatly restrict attempts to reconfigure them over their
 >serial link.

Redesigning said terminals isn't sufficient, as long as a significant
number of them exist out there.  It is, at best, part of the solution;
it is not *the* solution.



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