[IRCServices] Follow up to LINK/REGISTER mail

ongeboren xxx.coder at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 02:05:04 PDT 2007


Then set a jupe for guest* or whatever pattern you use for those
nicknames so that no user can change its nickname to that via /nick.

On 6/8/07, Robin Burchell <surreal.w00t at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just as a follow up, the process for generating random nicks is
> weakened by only using rand() the first time - if that's in use, the
> nicks will be predictable in a series, meaning a malicious user can
> register or link the next N nicks that will pop up and splat the same
> person repeatedly.
>
> Not nice.
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