Re: ICQ exploit

[Ed Rolison <ed.rolison () byzantium com>]

> While playing around with my laptop and desktop today I noticed something
> with ICQ.
>
> If you have ICQ setup on 2 machines using the same ICQ number, as soon as
> the second machine starts ICQ up the first machine gets an error about your
> ICQ number being used on another machine and immediately takes ICQ off line.
>
> I don't know the mechanism that allows this but has anyone considered an
> exploit based upon this mechanism? Seems to me a sequential run could knock
> a whole bunch of people off ICQ..

I've noticed this behaviour, although correct me if I'm wrong, but to do this
you need to actually log on to ICQ - thus you can't do it, because you'd need to
crack every account...