Re: Napster a little insecure?

[mark () ENTROPYNET COM (Mark Shirley)]

it is more likley they it checks for the mp3 header instead of an id3 tag.  all mp3's must have a header.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 03:52:20PM +0100, Thomas Maschutznig wrote:
> There _IS_ some kind of check, which files are being sent..
> I've heard of three actually
> (dont take this as 100% sure.. PLEASE)
>
> .) As Said below, it checks for ID3-Tags..
> I doubt this, as not all MP3s have an ID3Tag and dont HAVE to have one
>
> .) It will only send files with ".mp3" as extension
> Sounds ok, and with napster, I never found a file, that didnt have mp3 as
> extension
>
> .) Napster only checks in the directory, you specify it to look for MP3s,
> you wanna share
> Well, would be reasonable to do so ;)
>
> Eagerly waiting for 25 "I-am-currently-on-vacation"-autoreplys,
>
>          T
>
> > That may be true but i've once heard that napster doesn't allow the
> > transfer of the files which don't have ID3 Tag (I haven't tried that)
> > -- snip --
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Dennis Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running Napster v2.0 Build 1318 which is a freeware utility to share
> > > MP3's across
> > > the internet located at http://www.napster.com <http://www.napster.com> .
> > > Notice Napster sends the complete location of the file(s) being sent.  Does
> > > this mean that there is a way to coax the client to offer up ANY file?