Re: About IR Receivers and security

Hi Alec!


The question wasn't that... I now know how to do it through sysfs......
the question is :


"Can you suffer a security issue having the IR Receiver operative
although without configuring any kind of user space daemon? At least...
not conscientiously....


Cheers :)


On 13/10/17 12:42, Alec Leamas wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> On 12/10/17 22:15, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>> Good night,
>>
>>
>> After reading some documents over Internet, it seems pretty clear the
>> answer of what I wanted to ask you, but anyway if you would be
>>
>> so kind to answer me this, I would be very thankful . It's not really
>> a question closely related to LIRC directly, it's more about
>>
>> the default config situation of an IR loaded module (just that).
>>
>
> Indeed, this question is basically "How do I disable a kernel
> module/device?" As such, it isn't really related to lirc, which these
> days is built on top of the kernel.
>
> So you might be better off asking on a kernel list or forum. That
> said, you might be interested blacklisting the IR modules in
> /etc/modprobe.d - as long as you have a stable installation that
> should enough to properly disable all IR stuff if you just check the
> modules loaded today.
>
>
> Cheers!
> --alec
>
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