On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:48:13PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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...
Hm, right. I guess they were only referring to backspaces for
things other than passwords, like when typing a command in a
shell.
bye,
Harold
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