Re: possible AIM dos?

From: Matthew Sachs (matthewgat_private)
Date: Tue Oct 09 2001 - 18:21:54 PDT

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    On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:14:44PM -0400, John Scimone wrote:
    > After reading this outdated article regarding AOL Instant Messenger's "warn" 
    > feature:
    > 
    > http://www.attrition.org/security/denial/w/aim-warn.dos.html
    > 
    > I began to wonder what type of restrictions were put on it.  Does anyone know 
    > what is stopping someone from registering multiple screen names, then sending 
    > warnings from each of those names, all targeted at the same user thus keeping 
    > that user at a 100% warning level denying them the instant messenger service 
    > for the most part? 
    > any thoughts are appreciated.
    > thanks.
    
    In order to be able to warn someone, that person needs to have, say,
    sent you an instant message.  You can only warn someone once for every
    IM they send you.
    
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