Re: About IR Receivers and security

Alec Leamas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.lirc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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