Re: About IR Receivers and security
Alec Leamas <[email protected]>
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Hi. First of all: please don't top-post. The archives becomes a mess. On 13/10/17 13:03, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote: > 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.... Well, if you consider an arbitrary input device a problem, yes. The kernel provides decoding of many ir remotes out of the box and without any userspace code. --alec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot