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From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Speaking of Security Codes
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John G Dobnick <jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> writes:

> My question to you good folks on this list is: Can remote access be
> totally supressed on this beastie?  I see no way to do so.  If this
> _is_ mentioned in the manual, it isn't obvious to me.

There is no way, short of tampering with the unit's firmware, to
defeat the remote feature. This is a major shortcoming with this
otherwise good product. The only suggestion would be to change the
code daily :-)


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