An unusual Instant Messenger question

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Friday 10 January 2003 05:31 pm, Derek Martin wrote:
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> > > This is form of man-in-the-middle attack, and will look great on your
> > > hacking credentials.
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> > ... And would almost certainly be a DMCA violation, if you care about
> > that sort of thing.
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> I really don't think so.  Here, we're not trying to circumvent an
> authentication mechanism; instead we're trying to impose /additional/
> means of blocking access.  I'm not accutely familiar with the language
> of the DMCA, but I don't recall any language that prohibits such
> additional barriers to access.

It has nothing to do with blocking the port and everything to do with reverse 
engineering AOL's prototol.  I'm not talking about the shutting down of the 
connection but the sending of the sign-off message to his friends, which 
would require proprietary knowledge of their protocol/

> And I seriously doubt that, being
> implemented in someone's home, for purposes of monitoring their
> children, it would ever go to court even if there were...

I never said it would.  Only that it was a violation.  Sorry, I forgot to put 
a smiley face after it.

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