In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harold Gutch writes:
>On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
>> :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote:
>> :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter.
>> :>
>> :> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839
>> :
>> :Interesting, I guess one could work around it by periodically
>> :sending bogus empty packets in the middle of activity.
>>
>> Yah, and typing backspaces also ought to work. 12345bb45bb45678b8<return>
>
>
>Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001,
>where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a
>backspace actually translated to <Cursorleft><Space><Cursorleft>
>thus sending 3 characters at a time instead of only 1.
That's pretty BS because passwords are not echoed...
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