This reminds me of an old Sun Workstation eavesdropping trick, back
> when soundcards were new. Every Sun had a soundcard and a
> microphone. But every Sun ran multi-user UNIX. So you log on
> remotely, record a sound file, download it, and play it. (Or, if
> more clever, stream it to yourself in real time.) And so you hear
> whatever is going on in the room where the computer is.
It goes both ways. The admin in another department once logged into a machine in a public lab and catted a file to /dev/audio of himself crying out, "Help me, I am trapped inside this computer."
Of course, I noticed the /etc/motd on _his_ server was world-writable. Hilarity ensued. Telecom content? Nil.
scott
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