On Dec 8, 5:38pm in "Re: Evil E-Mail", you warbled: ] And if someone can remap your keyboard just by writing some control ] characters to your display then you have big problems aside from receiving ] strange mail messages. Someone could put them there directly with a write ] or a talk message, and you don't even get a warning about that.
Yep. It has been done. It's quite complex, but here on our X system it's possible to place characters in the keyboard buffer on someone's xterm so they give you their account, simply by writing to the xterm. X? Great, huh? Geoff
