[JDEV] AT&T beating us to the punch..

[Sean Heber]

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>   AIM uses an overflow bug to detect clients that aren't made by them..
>
>   Hrm.  Has anyone actually tried to look at what the overflow bug causes,
> and 'emulate' it?

I'm not so sure about this..  I could be wrong (I have no clue, really), but
I happen to know the guy who's doing BeAIM (http://www.bebits.com/app/1) and
it still works fine.  Also, BeAIM uses the Oscar protocol and reports itself
as "BeAIM" and not as the Windows client.  They haven't blocked it.   And I
highly doubt he has the same "buffer bug".

Just my $0.02.

(Also, if anyone is looking for protocol stuff for AIM to write a transport,
you should give Greg an e-mail.  He probably has one of the most
feature-rich AIM implementations out there.  And once the next version of
BeAIM is released, it will have even more.)

(Oh, and since a lot of you folks probably care about such things, source is
out there.  :-))

l8r
Sean

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