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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
- In-Reply-To: dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:11:35 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:18:51 GMT
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- Darkman> == Darkman <dms50304@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
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- Darkman> Easy. Bots should never function of nicks,
-
- True; nicks are not an identifier, just a temporary tag at best.
-
- Darkman> use user@host, very reliable against all but those who know
- Darkman> how to fake logins.
-
- Well, gee, security through (not-very) obscurity... login faking is
- trivial under most conditions (unless your server is set up to check
- with identd, *and* your machine is running an identd, *and* you don't
- switch servers to one that doesn't check with identd...)
-
- This is also assuming that a server hasn't been compromised, which
- allows you to fake both user and host (just ask BIFF@BIT.NET, who was
- registered with NickServ for a while :-).
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