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- From: wiml@cs.washington.edu (William Lewis)
- Subject: Re:Oh No!...Geraldo
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.031932.12426@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Keywords: sound hacks
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <15tsluINNca6@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:19:32 GMT
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- Hans Hrasna writes
- > ObHack: rlogin to your friend's SUN and:
- > host% xhost +
- > host% setenv yourhost:0.0
- > host% soundtool &
- > host% logout
- > yourhost%
- > play a sound in soundtool :)
-
- You could do the same sort of thing on earlier versions of NeXTstep
- without even logging in. The Mach port corresponding to the audio
- device driver was advertised on the network message server under a well
- known name. I wrote a nifty application to excercise this feature.
- (This would be even more interesting if they hadn't "fixed" this in
- version 2.0 of the OS. The hardware that NeXT released along with the
- upgrade included mikes built in to the monitor. Distributed eavesdropping!
- and from anywhere on the Internet, too. OTOH, I suspect 8 kb/sec of
- keyboard noises would get boring after a while.)
-
- Of course, NeXT still has plenty of security holes, although few
- quite as interesting. Multimedia mail, for example, has many applications...
-