[pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio with speakup

[Markus Rechberger]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
> pe, 2010-01-01 kello 16:58 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti:
>> Anyone out there every get hacked because you shared the Alsa back-end
>> with another user?  Anyone?
>
> I don't think anyone is going to get hacked because of this - it's
> rather rare that you say your passwords aloud. Instead of hacking issue,
> it's a privacy issue on shared machines. You can try arguing against
> that as long as nobody reports real cases of eavesdropping, but I think
> this is a rather obvious problem...
>

Can you point out to a few requests where people had serious issues
with shared audio access during the last 10 years, other unix systems
get along quite fine with shared support. The hacking argument is just
nonsense, I highly doubt that it has any relevance for real.

Markus