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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Terminal hacking
Message-ID: <2392@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 Aug 89 18:12:20 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >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.