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Re: Brad Justus is real
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 15:19:59 GMT
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On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 04:00:56 GMT, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net>
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> I thought the same thing, until someone showed how it could be done here as
> well. But your point is well taken. People here in LUGNET are on the whole
> mature adults who are responsible people. It is our little utopia (8 wide, of
> course;) based on bricks. But you are right. This little incident is a perfect
> example of why RTL is a vast wasteland.
Actually, no, it's not possible to effectively forge messages here.
Yes, you can post messages using someone else's name (easily, even).
But it is _not_ possible to forge the originating IP in Todd's logs.
Which means that even though _we_ don't necessarily have the ability
to verify messages posted from the web interface (messages posted via
NNTP have a useful X-Nntp-postinghost: added - BTW, Todd, how about
adding a useful header of originating IP to the web interface as
well?), Todd can, and Todd oes.
Jasper
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| (...) Not to spread paranoia, but... offhand, I can think of three different ways to forge the IP in Todd's logs. Supposing someone wanted to pose as Brad Justus: one could a) break into Brad's machine and post from there b) break into Todd's (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| I thought the same thing, until someone showed how it could be done here as well. But your point is well taken. People here in LUGNET are on the whole mature adults who are responsible people. It is our little utopia (8 wide, of course;) based on (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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