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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security Hole?
Message-ID: <12600@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 90 05:16:00 GMT
References: <49464@cornell.UUCP> <10548@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <10548@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whelan@donald.wslab.Hawaii.Edu (The Obscure Guru) writes:
>In article <49464@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
>	I believe this came up last summer.  Someone stated that the
>new slabs have something akin to the "public window server" option
>in preferences for the microphone control.  As a simple hardware
>solution one could always plug a dud plug into the microphone
>input on the back, as using that jack disables the built in
>microphone.

   Indeed. I just played with a 68040 slab (monochrome, alas) demo unit this
afternoon and Pref now has a switch for "Public Sound Port" or some such.
By default, disabled. 
   Of course, nothing prevents you from doing exactly this on an *old*
1.0 machine, which is a cause of endless *ahem* merriment around here...
fortunately, people rarely leave microphones lying around plugged into 
their NeXTs. =8)





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