From:	Bahwi Malistyr <bahwi@************.COM>
Subject:	Re: [Stuff] Pocket Secretaries (first draft)
Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 1998 20:47:16 -0500

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From: "Tomus Cone" <brother_1@*******.com>

>Okay, I'll say something. I am basing my views on reality. Enjoy.

Cool. I don't, but I'm not biased against.


>What allows deckers into the system would be the equivalent of
>telnetd. This would not normally be in a pocket secratary.

I know very little about the tech involved, but a pocket secratary
AFAIK
can store and process data (quite a bit in some cases) and has
both In and
Out ports for the matrix. If only one of the ports is connected, I
would
tell a decker where to go, and it wouldn't be friendly.

>The deckers would have to find
>another way in. Also, I would like a pocket secratary with only two
>ports, one to receive data and one to send data. Also the OS of the
>pocket secratary would normally only accecpt commands from the
>screen and from the keyboard, if any.

So executable files are a no-go on a pocket sec?

>Hacking into one would
>depend on the program running and controlling the ports, most
>likely this would be impossible, but not always.

I don't know about control, but definitely the attitude of these two
ports.

>The most would be
>crashing the program and interfering with the program.

I really don't see why a decker (ok, with a small enough bandwidth)
couldn't do a read/write, then crash. :)

>You would
>also have to destroy the connection then move yourself there for it
>to work if the port was in use, and the system may notice it.

Again, I think this is a matter of bandwidth, although the time delay for
anything being moved by the owner would be significantly different.

>Also,
>as has been said, the pocket secratary would have little bandwidth
>without an upgrade, as it would not be a replacement for an actual
>telecom, and would thus be expected to be used less on the
>telecom.

One of those was 20K! It better make me lunch and do my laundry!

>This is my view of it

Gotcha.

>-bahwi


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