Re: Small idea

[Tomas Edwardsson <tommi@xxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 05:08:45PM -0600, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > Well, I know that. But there have been quite a few instances of someone
> > being flooded of a server, at the same time as someone else issued a
> > 'MODE #chan +o nick', Then the abuser changes nick to the one who he
> > flooded off and gets op, neet ehh?
> 
> Uff... looks like good timing :)
> 1. the flooder must know when the victim will get opped
Quite often people get op on join, whether it's requested from a bot or a
person does it.

> 2. the flooder must know how long it takes until the victim bails out
People can be flooded out in a matter of 3-4 seconds.

> 3. the flooder and the victim or the opper must be on a lagging server
Not that uncommon :-)

> 
> 1. and 2. should be really hard to find out
> and with 3. there are much more simplier ways to hack
> 
> isn't it more that no1 respects the hostmask and everyone
> is opping known nicks so that it's easy for me to join a
> channel with a known nick there and get op?
> 
> Could u please show me at least one case for ur scenario?
> I'd really interested in :)

I don't have access to all these things that war groups are known to use,
such as lagging servers, flooding clients, etc... But I think you've
probably heard of a couple of these instances. I realize this is not a
number one priority. But it might be fairly easy to implement, just like
'PRIVMSG Nick!Uid@Host'.

> 
> 
> regards,
> -- 
> Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> http://WWW.RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE/~holbe/
> 
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