Re: A86: Re: AOL Users or non.

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: AOL Users or non.
From: TGaArdvark@aol.com
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:58:08 EST
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> if your on irc people can get your ip address, then they can nuke you or do
> whatever they want to do to you....

I believe AOL screens port 139 now, and OSR 2 and Win98 have
the winsock patch, and win 3.1 and mac and linux are not vulnerable
to nukes.  So if you can be nuked, you are a rare individual.
There are plenty of places you can pick up patches if you use
OSR 1 (the only vulnerable OS).  Also, nuking only locks up
your computer, big whoop.  Thirdly, people are not going to waste
all that time and bandwidth trying to nuke you when it probably
won't work anyway unless you really piss them off.  Fourthly,
WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY CAN DO WITH YOUR IP
ADDRESS?!  Egg your house perhaps?  Whereever you heard
letting others know your IP address was bad, IT WAS VERY
WRONG.  I don't know how this rumor started and the people
who are propagating it should be shot (since they're all AOLers
anyway).

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