North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: more Internic nightmare
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 04:59:45PM -0800, Derek Balling wrote: > Unless you're planning on enforcing passwords for contacts then I don't > think it'd take all that much to SIMULATE a client, choosing random people > from the whois database, and blaming other people for your whois queries. > An even more intelligent system would use the tech contact for the LAST > result as the requestor for the current one so that there would be no > visible pattern. > > The source code for the client is going to be out there, so people will > figure out how it works, reverse engineer a version that uses a forged, > but existing, tech contact, and go on with their day. Can we say "PGP"? C'mon, folks; the engineering solutions to these problems are _trivial_. What is _not_ trivial is working the political process to bring pressure to bear on Netsol to make them _possible_. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Buy copies of The New Hackers Dictionary. The Suncoast Freenet Give them to all your friends. Tampa Bay, Florida http://www.ccil.org/jargon/ +1 813 790 7592
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