Re: how to transfer files on napster

[geetwentythree () YAHOO COM (Marcy Abene)]

I'm just speculating here, but I've heard of a similar
online file exchange area called Hotline
(http://www.bigredh.com/index2.html)
http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=hotline

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this almost exactly
the same thing only with a focus on porn and warez
over mp3?  (not overtly of course)

I imagine there are security issues lurking in the
Hotline clients if they allow more file types.

On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Blue Boar wrote:
> Jordan Ritter wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Jason Copenhaver wrote:
> >
> > # this txt explains a pretty simple way into
fooling napster into
> > # thinking that your transfering an mp3 file.  It
looks like it only
> > # checks for a valid 4 byte mp3 header and the mp3
file extenstion....
> > As I stated already in a list email well before
yours, this is possible.
> > Anyone that wants to pursue steganographic methods
for fooling file
> > transfer software is very likely to meet with
success.
> > My conclusion was, who the hell would want to?  A
hex editor?  Gee, that's
> > useful.
> >
> > --jordan
>
> Depends on whether you were trying to keep people
solely from giving access
> to other files on accident, or if you were trying to
keep people from
> trading other types of warez intentionally.
>
>                                               BB
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