Re: AIM bug or feature

[whitevampire () MINDLESS COM (White Vampire)]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 06:47:17AM -0400, Justin Lintz(jlintz () OPTONLINE NET) wrote:
: Another thing about their direct connection feature is your allowed to type
: without a limit of sending ims.  Could that lead to a possible DoS attack?

        Yes, it would open the individuals to the /very/ dangerous and
rare 'flood attack.'  What you do, is copy a character into the
clipboard and hit ^V then {ENTER} repeatedly.

        Then the luser is frozen in fear and is incapable of hitting the
'ignore' button.

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