Re: icq accounts

[sarnold () WILLAMETTE EDU (Seth R Arnold)]

(Sven, you might wish to :set textwidth=74 or so...)

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 08:38:23PM +0000, Sven E. van 't Veer wrote:
> I use LICQ on my linuxbox and it lets me add any user I want without
> asking for authorization, sure it gives me the option to ask for
> authorization if I really want to, but it's not needed.
>
> I can also send messages spoofing the UIN. I can Query the OS of the user
> do a a finger, lookup hostname.
>
> I don't use these options much, anyway it does hardly as good a job as
> nmap, so I guess you don't have to be a hacker to do these things.

licq actually fires off nmap and queso and finger to find out all this
information -- it just makes it available in a convenient menu system.

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