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SubjectRe: Ctrl-Scroll
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Erik Parker wrote:
> Things of that nature. Anyhow. Anyone to remove it from happening?
> It is also a potential DoS, if someone walked by one of my machines, and
> just put a couple weights on the ctrl-scroll keys, the workload jumps, and
> it kinda goes crazy, because it keeps tossing that output.

by the same token, a cat could sleep on your keyboard and do the same thing
with a huge variety of keys.

moral of the story, if you want a secure machine, don't allow physical
access. particularly to cats.

-d

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