[IRCServices] Re: [Andy Smith - IRCServices]

[Andy Smith]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:42:52 +0200, Partizanu <silvius at expres.ro> wrote:

>Imagine this:
>Some user, let`s say Guest007 come to you and say:
>- Hello my dear services admin! I have a problem. User BadGuest stole my password
>and I want my nick back. Can you do something about this?

In this situation, BadGuest was given the password by the user, or else the
user did something to allow BadGuest to easily guess it.  That is the user's
problem.

The other slim possibility is that the IRC network itself has someone
sniffing passwords on it.  That is a problem that needs to be solved, and no
part of services can solve it for you.

The vast majority of "password stealing" incidents are down to users sharing
their passwords.

-- 
Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net>