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- From: StarWatcher@uiuc.edu (StarWatcher)
- Subject: Re: Useless Bots
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:18:51 GMT
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- Christopher Davis writes:
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- : 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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- Is it my imagination, or are faked userid@host's becoming more common
- on IRC. And, am I alone in finding them d*mned annoying?
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