[PD] [netpd] everybody is invited to join the collaborative music-project

Roman Haefeli reduzierer at yahoo.de
Fri Oct 28 00:40:44 CEST 2005


hi sven, hi list

entschuldige, dass ich diese mail an die liste weiterleite, aber ich
denke, das thema ist für alle (zukünftigen) netpd-user interessant.

you mentioned the security aspects of netpd. i admit that i never cared
seriously about this topic, but i'm aware that netpd could be a security
risk.

short description of the problem:
with netpd it's possible to upload patches to the computer of all
connected users and control them remotely. since there are some methods
in pd to read or write data from/to harddisk, it would be possible with
netpd to receive this data from a remote computer.

i'm not a specialist in security questions, so i appreciate every
advice. my first thoughts tend to the direction of filtering out
problematic objects during transmission of a patch. the first thing that
everyone should care when using netpd is to avoid loading not used
externals. especially the [shell] external is very delicate.

maybe this is naiv, but i think as long as there are only a few users,
using netpd shouldn't be too dangerous, but it absolutely is an aspect
to take care of.

roman


sven <ml.sven at subscience.de> wrote:

> hi roman,
> wenn du netpd public machst,
> solltest du nicht vergessen,
> dass es auch ein ziemliches
> sicherheitsrisiko darstellt...
> werden gesharte patches
> denn auf potentielle gefahren
> gescannt?
>
>
> sven.
>


	

	
		
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