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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:36:59 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
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On Wed Nov 19 01:07:43 EST 2014, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > i'm a bit paranoid about ether frames jumping the switch somehow, but i
> > guess that's as likely as local snooping while tftping the boot image that
> > has the nvram with creds.
>
> Well, if you're paranoid, then being able to "write" arbitrary data to
> the console is more serious than intercepting a password, at least on
> the surface.

i'd encourage folks to at least try cec before assuming things about how
it works.

by the way, at one point i had a hacked up kernel which allowed me to
mount a file server over the cec protocol.  quite a bit like nonet.

- erik