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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: spiffy terminals
Message-ID: <9349@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 89 11:05:00 GMT
References: <443@marob.MASA.COM> <9287@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9307@smoke.BRL.MIL> <815@ttrde.UUCP> <7055@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7055@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>In article <815@ttrde.UUCP>, stox@ttrde.UUCP (Kenneth P. Stox) writes:
>) 630 is programmable.
>What this means, in short, is that you can write a program to have
>this terminal send anything you want.  Send the proper escape
>sequence to it when someone is su "root", and you've just programmed
>it to send commands to allow unpassworded root access.

The download protocol requires active cooperation on the host end,
for example address relocation, so it is unlikely anyone could do
more than wedge the terminal via an intruder command sequence sent
to it.  In layers mode, normally the multiplexed channels simply
aren't accessible to any intruder.