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From: whelan@donald.wslab.Hawaii.Edu (The Obscure Guru)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security Hole?
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Date: 8 Dec 90 00:29:42 GMT
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In article <49464@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter Wayner) writes:
=> NOTHING APPEARS TO PREVENT REMOTE OPERATION OF THE MICROPHONE. There is NO
=> INDICATION ON THE FRONT OF THE NeXT MACHINE THAT THE MICROPHONE IS LIVE OR
=> DEAD! (Remember Ronald Reagan's problems with "supposedly dead" microphones?)

	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.
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