Apurdue.217 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!cak Fri Mar 5 00:02:12 1982 Security and Smart Terminals Well, not to sound pompous, but I thought of this one years ago. It's just going to keep getting worse, as we get more and more terminals with processors in them. We have a number of BBN BitGraph terminals here; they house a 68000 processor and can be downloaded and have a program run in them standalone. Downloading happens across the serial line. So you can get much more clever than just putting it in loopback mode. Super-users beware! By the way, a variant on the HP scheme is to send the sequence to program one of the function keys with the string you want uttered. Then you can send another command to 'push' that function key. Chris Kent, Purdue University ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.