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From: bb@condo.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Security Hole?
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Date: 11 Dec 90 08:47:48 GMT
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In article <49464@cornell.UUCP> wayner@kama.cs.cornell.edu (Peter
Wayner) writes:

> Here is a scenario: A remote user turns on the microphone on the NeXT,
> recording the voice to a file (locally or remotely). Any sound in the
> proximity of the NeXT CRT is recorded. This file containing the
> conversation is then played back on a remote NeXT. Voila, a built-in
> office bug!


I personally have been waiting nearly a year for someone to write
"Bearcat.app".  You know, like the shortwave scanner of the same name.
It would put up a window with a couple rows of sequentially blinking
lights corresponding to machines on a local network, and scan through
all of them once every second or two.  Every time a sound from a
machine rose past a certain threshold ("broke squelch"), it would stop
scanning, play the sound, and log it to disk.  With the new color
machines, the lights could even be the proper shade of red LED.

1/2 :-)


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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo."
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