spiffy terminals

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Jan 12 21:05:00 AEST 1989


In article <7055 at cdis-1.uucp> tanner at cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
>In article <815 at ttrde.UUCP>, stox at 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.



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