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Subject: Re: A reason not to release new movei in the next month

Author: Angrim

Date: 17:59:09 06/28/04

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On June 28, 2004 at 20:37:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 28, 2004 at 19:50:19, Peter Berger wrote:
>
>>But I am really quite sure that potential crashes of your movei chess program
>>don't fall into this category for various reasons. I can imagine an attack
>>against Movei running on a chessserver - but how is this threat going to be
>>worked on to threaten someone's computer?
>
>Very simple.  Write a rogue engine that sends the overrun to any opponent named
>"movei*"

no chess server that I have used has the option for one player to
send an arbitrary string of character to the oponent and pretend that
it is a chessboard.  Which is what your suggestion would require.
Now a chess server coder could possibly add such an attack, assuming
that your interface program didn't do any sanity checking, but that
is taking paranoia pretty far.

Angrim



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