What is the garbage text that is being printed by wvdial in terminal?
- by Hrishi
When I dial using wvdial, sometimes it prints some garbage text into the terminal. This is not happening every time, but in the garbage text I can see some readable strings which is often irc logs(from xchat) or GET requests from the browser.
One of my friend told me that this is probably something it's reading from /dev/random for Random entropy, but I couldn't find any supporting information.
What is this text, and why is it being printed to the terminal?
See the below picture for an example: