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Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?
- To: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?
- From: "sr." <staticrez@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:16:42 -0500
oh....this reminds of the days subseven would send ICQ pager
alerts....ahh...the gold 'ol days.....
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> 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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