Re: has anybody ever seen this?

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 12:28:03 -0700 (MST)

Lo and behold, Robert Shady once said:

> > > S10 ATS0?S2?S3?S4?S - Log/Net In USERNAME 0 0
>
> I'd be more willing to bet that the user on the other side doesn't realize
> that they're connected, and their software tried sending the modem init
> strings. I've seen it happen several times.

As have I, though I wouldn't call an init string that asks the modem
for all of its current settings a normal init string. Hence the
confusion about the security issue...

-Dave Andersen

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