Vulnerability Development: Re: ICQ exploit

[Blake Frantz <blake () MC NET>]

I don't think that (sequential run...) would work.  You still need a valid
password for the account in order to connect to the ICQ network.  Most
chat clients like ICQ/Yahoo Messenger/etc... behave in the same manner.

Blake

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Geo. wrote:

> While playing around with my laptop and desktop today I noticed something
> with ICQ.
>
> If you have ICQ setup on 2 machines using the same ICQ number, as soon as
> the second machine starts ICQ up the first machine gets an error about your
> ICQ number being used on another machine and immediately takes ICQ off line.
>
> I don't know the mechanism that allows this but has anyone considered an
> exploit based upon this mechanism? Seems to me a sequential run could knock
> a whole bunch of people off ICQ..
>
> Geo.