News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly (2016). Parent comment

Re:World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you d... by tonylucas on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:13PM (#18342035)
Exactly that, it was known as the ‘script.ini’ problem, the download directory was changed as well.

It would attempt to send to people as they joined a channel.

More info: http://www.irchelp.org/security/si.html

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you d... by jondumbau on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:28AM (#18351658)
there was the funny magic string that would make half a channels modems disconnect too.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you d... by mickeyp on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:16AM (#18352288)
Ah, yes, I remember that. I think it was because the modems didn't differentiate between the various layers in the transport stream and took anything resembling low-level modem commands to be gospel.
[ Parent | on HN ]