[IRCServices] Follow up to LINK/REGISTER mail

[Robin Burchell]

That doesn't fix NS LINK, and it also doesn't fix protocols like
RFC1459 that don't support any such feature.

It's further problematic when you have a large network guesting a lot
of people simultaneously, as those are the kind of conditions where it
becomes guessable.

Thanks for the suggestion, though :)

On 6/9/07, ongeboren <xxx.coder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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