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Chat program..almost finished; I need your help
Topic Started: Dec 28 2004, 03:21 PM (645 Views)
ABeakyboy
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I just released v 0.9.6 It has a few changes, but the main thing is that I fixed a bug in which a hacker could conceivedly boot or close everyone currently on the chat without any permissions at all.
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Lord, the sky's still blue,
For my hope is in You.
You're my joy,
You're the dream that's still alive.
Like the wind at my back,
And the sun on my face,
You are life,
You're grace,
You are blue skies.
--"Blue Skies"
--Point of Grace
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Shawn
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I wonder why a hacker would actually try to hack such a smal program... :p
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octmuk
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well hackers tend to target any large program, but may think of it as "practice" for future hacks, this is what i say and dont listen to me if you dont want to
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ABeakyboy
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Hmm...i admit that the possibility is low that anyone would bother to hack my chat program, but if a security hole is there, there is always the possibility that it would be exploited. So many people are fooled like that: "Why would a hacker target my computer? Im only a home user." Yet millions of users get hacked and thousands get their identity stolen because of email fraud.


Besides its good practice as a programmer. If you know a problem is there, might as well fix it.

BTW: The security hole was caused because the server automatically re-transmits all messages received unless they are / messages. That allows the thing to work so when i type HI then its retransmitted to all users. However, in the older version, if you sent the system message which tells the client that it was booted to the server, the server would take that booted message and retransmit it to the clients and everyone would be booted off. In order for this to work, you would have to use some sort of ethernet sniffer to figure out the exact string of chars to send however.

This bug now has been corrected.
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Lord, the sky's still blue,
For my hope is in You.
You're my joy,
You're the dream that's still alive.
Like the wind at my back,
And the sun on my face,
You are life,
You're grace,
You are blue skies.
--"Blue Skies"
--Point of Grace
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Arrhael in disguise.

Aaron, I'll make you a banner. Just tell me how big and what you want on it.
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If you would like a usertitle, just tell me. You can send me a PM or post in the usertitles topic in the news forum. Thanks.
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