About Meow

By Jamie Faye Fenton
TGF Systems Administrator





Meow is the name of our new chat room technology. It replaces a chat room system that we bought from a company several years ago. The old system had a number of known security problems which our vendor was unwilling to fix.

Since we have developed meow and have complete access to the source code, we are in a position to promptly repair any security holes that we discover. We can also add additional features to improve our services and will.

Like our old system, anyone on the Internet can login to meow and chat. This means someone can still come in and behave rudely. As before, you can choose to ignore someone. Beyond this, we won't be able to ban specific people unless we go to a system of passwords. We have found that nobody likes using passwords and the chat room goes dead if we require them.

So we have a dilemma: people want us to exclude rude people but don't want to identify themselves. This is why we will continue to ignore requests to bar individuals systematically as it is not possible under these constraints.

Meow does close one major security hole. In the existing chat room, we were having people transferred in against their will from other chat sites on the Internet. Moreover, their names were being changed to obscenities. This will no longer be possible in meow.


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