Re: [tlug] How to detect unwelcome visitors on my macbook?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Shawn Brown writes:
 > Ulrike wrote:

 > > I have a MacBook running Snow Leopard. Yesterday, when I was taking a
 > > little break from work and leaning back to think I suddenly saw a
 > > movement on my screen. It looked like someone was testing my mouse, but
 > > it lay motionless on the table.

Are you running an X server or VNC?  If not, it should not be possible
for anyone not on the machine to mess with the pointer's position, and
I can't imagine why anybody who wasn't basically benign (but a tease)
would do such a thing.

 > I encountered a battery expanding which pushed into the track pad.
 > This caused things to be selected randomly sometimes and occasional
 > cursor movement.

Me too.  It also destroyed a music CD which couldn't be removed from
the SuperDrive (which turns out not to be invulnerable to Kryptonite
batteries).