Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:53:24 -0800 (PST) | From | David <> | Subject | Re: Ctrl-Scroll |
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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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