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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: user@host faking.
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 12:30:52 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- References: <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.023224.27417@njitgw.njit.edu> lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) writes:
- >
- > Since the patriot thread strted this, I thought I would bring it up
- > in a seperate thread. Faking of users user@id's on irc is an aannoying and
- > potentially dangerous action. I would hope other admins would update
- > their server to the 2.7.2gID server that uses authd. Actually, I would
-
- I really hope they don't run the auth stuff, as this would put a lot
- of people off the net who have done no other evil than being on
- machines that dont't run authd (or even don't run UNIX - terrible
- crime...)
-
- > hope other server opers/admins would take the stance that we at hertz.njit.edu
- > have taken. We allow NO user tampering of user@id's. This seems obvious to
- > us as a way to make users a little more responsible for their acts.
-
- And how do you figure out what a 'tampering' is, and WHO really did do
- it? There are machines that have no way of identifying the human at
- the other side of the glass...
-
- Happy New Year,
- Olaf
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