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From: Eric.Thayer@cs.cmu.edu (Eric H. Thayer)
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Subject: Re: Security Hole?
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.221350.23330@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 22:13:50 GMT
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In article <1990Dec7.171128.1761@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis 
A. Mamakos) writes:
> In the 2.0 software, there is a new preferences item called something like
> "Public Sound Port" or some such.  It is similar to the "Public Window Server"
> switch.  Presumably, when you turn this off, the sound port is not accessable
> other than on the local machine.

If you are still paranoid about interlopers, you could implement a program 
which acquires sound in.  If you implement a negotiation function, you could release sound in when it was requested and have some notification signal (e.g.  
flaming ears dancing around the NeXT icon :-) during the time that the application did not have sound in acquired.  You could probably bribe a NeXT guru to do it for some pizza or Coke.

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