AIM Chat Room Pwn3d: IRC adopted!

Satomi · Post by **Satomi** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:24 pm

Veldrin wrote:
Tab. wrote:Wow, that's fucking gay.
I Agree.

No kidding. Especially since I don't have nor can afford mIRC.

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:31 pm

Satomi wrote:No kidding. Especially since I don't have nor can afford mIRC.

The link to the client I posted is free. So far I'm liking it.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 9:04 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:The only thing wrong with this IRC plan is that it's easier for members to pretend to be someone else =/

That's not true at all. On IRC you can get a log of someone's IP. On aim, someone can join claiming to be anyone they like.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:04 pm

AbsoluteDestiny wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:The only thing wrong with this IRC plan is that it's easier for members to pretend to be someone else =/
That's not true at all. On IRC you can get a log of someone's IP. On aim, someone can join claiming to be anyone they like.

That's not what I meant, I could easily log on to that chat with the nickname "Absolute Destiny" since it doesn't require a password. Whereas you needed an account to use AIM. Not everyone has access to IP addresses

I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?

BogoSort · Post by **BogoSort** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:08 pm

Moonlight Soldier wrote:That's not what I meant, I could easily log on to that chat with the nickname "Absolute Destiny" since it doesn't require a password. Whereas you needed an account to use AIM. Not everyone has access to IP addresses :P

Actually, on the IRC network that we're using there are services where you can protect your nick from being used without a password. If anyone's having trouble on getting them to work, feel free to message me and I can help with it. But that still doesn't stop people from signing on as Absolute-Destiny or 4B501U73-D3571NY or any permutations, but that's what ops are for.

And on IRC, ip addresses are available to everyone. A simple whois on the relavant nick will reveal such information.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:24 pm

How are you guys going to deal with imposters who come in using other people's names who don't go to the irc chat at all?

Plus what about people who use proxies to change their ip's?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:29 pm

Ips are logged in the forums in every post you make. If it looks to be an imposter they could cross check it I suppose.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:43 am

Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?

I like that idea.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:45 am

)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?
I like that idea.

There was talk about that, but it would have been problematic to execute.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:57 am

Kalium wrote:
)v(ajin Koji wrote:
Moonlight Soldier wrote:I was thinking though, theres' this one forum I'm on that uses a chat that logs you in as whatever your sn is on the actual forum, and you can set it to only let people logged in can use it. Ever considered something like that maybe?
I like that idea.
There was talk about that, but it would have been problematic to execute.

You could say that about everything on this site

"Where am I gonna get $60,000 for an AMV site...oh wait a sec....!" :¬ P