Re: LIdent (more...)

[Bug Hunter <bughunter999@yahoo.ca>]

At 01:13 PM 4/5/2002, Doug Lim wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:33:06 -0600,
>Bug Hunter <bughunter999@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I was on one channel and noticed that someone else apparently using a
> > registered nick of mine. One of the OPS said that I should use LIDENT
> > plugin from DalNet. I looked around DALNet but could not find any such
> > plugin. Can anyone explain what LIDENT does and if it is available for 
> X-CHAT?
> >
>
>I don't know why I missed this on the first pass...
>
>DALnet DOES NOT distribute ANY plugins or scripts. If the user you're
>referring to seemed to be claiming that there was some script or
>plugin called LIDENT and that it was in some way OFFICIALLY distributed
>by DALnet, they're lying and this should be a REALLY BIG CLUE[tm] to you that
>that user is NOT to be trusted in the future on anything of any
>significance.
>
>DALnet does allow registered users (anyone who registers a nick or
>channel) to set up a limited-space web site for their nick or for
>their channel. Often, unscrupulous users will choose nicks or
>channels that SOUND official, not just for the sake of online
>deception, but also to set up official looking web pages in the
>user area (anything on the http://home.dal.net/ server claiming
>to be an official DALnet page or site is trying to pull a fast one)
>often for the purpose of distributing scripts, plugins or programs
>that claim to be one thing but are really another (i.e. scripts
>with backdoors to steal passwords; scripts or plugins that turn
>your system into an IRC spam drone; antivirus scanners/disinfectors
>that in reality plant a trojan or other backdoor on your system).
>
>If someone tries to pass off a home.dal.net site as an official
>one, get a timestamped log of the user making the claim
>(a timestamp can be as simple as "This conversation took place
>on 4-APR-2002 GMT -0600" is fine for people who don't automatically
>log and timestamp their IRC sessions) and report it to
>webteam@dal.net or any available online IRC oper.


The person in question simply indicated that I shoudl download this LIDENT 
from DALnet. They never gave me a url for it. The person in question was 
identified on the user list with a yellow dot by XChat.



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