[oclug] Permissions on /dev/audio

[Philippe Tanguay]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 bbarnett at L8R.net wrote:
> Well.....  what if you had a microphone attached, and someone remotely could
> listen to everything you said?  What if the computer alerts security people
> with a sound about breakins into the building, or intrusions online, and
> someone turns the audio down.
> 
> It may seem silly, but since the OS could be used for anything.....

I see what you're saying but, it seems to me that a more common denominator
would make more sense.  If I have special application needs, I can secure
towrads that.  However, this particular /dev/audio setup just invites newbies
to run as root, on account that "I can only play music as root".  Definitely
not secure then !

> As for other devices, you have your hard drives, etc in /dev, so you definately
> do want to be paranoid about /dev. 

For sure - I was talking about /dev/audio only