RE: MSN Messanger as home control interface anyone?

["Dan Khan" <dhk@xxxxxxx>]

Yeh, and you could easily make the first command to be some sort of
security
code, pin number, PGP key, or something...

-Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] MSN Messanger as home control interface anyone?


Hmmm.. good point.

However, MSN Messanger does have the ability to allow/deny people to see
when it's online & communicate with it doesn't it? - if anyone wanted
to
communicate with my HA servers' messanger service, they'd have to add it to
their list of contacts, - when they do that, a pop-up comes up on my HA
server saying "so-and-so (sic) has added you to their contacts, do you
want
to allow them to communicate with you?" - I then have the option to
allow or
deny them, - as I understand it, they cannot actually see my status or
start
a conversation unless and untill I "allow" them to from my end...
So all I
should have to do (in theory), is just reply "deny" to any such
requests
that occur, then no-one but me can actually converse with the server...

That is of course, presuming I understand it correctly...

Paul G.