Re: ICQ 6 protocol bug?

[bobby.mugabe () hushmail com]

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Watching Darren Reed vs Valdis Kletnieks on the Full Disclosure
promises all sorts of hilarity, far beyond whatever n3td3v could
have brought to the list.

- -bm

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:49:05 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:26:48 +0200, James Matthews said:
>
> > ICQ is known to have a few remote bugs. I use meebo.com instead
> of a client
> > due to these issues.
>
> At which point you're probably trading known bugs for unknown
> bugs. ;)
>
> Of course, this is a battle the user can't win. The other option
> is to
> toss the proprietary ICQ client and use some other open-source
> client like
> Pidgin - at which point you're trading known ICQ bugs for unknown
> Pidgin bugs.
> At that point, your best bet is to consider 2 things:
>
> 1) What client am I most likely to see actual attacks against?
> 2) What client am I the most worried about attacks?
>
> (Note the two don't have to be the same - widespread ICQ attacks
> may be more
> common, but maybe you worry more about getting hit with a Pidgin
> attack because
> it possibly means you're being targeted....)
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