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icey // User SearchNewbie Guide to the Newsgroups (4th Edition)Nov 29, 2002, 8:51pm
Bots N PrivacyJul 21, 2003, 1:04pm
Hi Xelag, long time no see...well the CNN option seems intriguing :o)
icey [View Quote] >To explain this a bit more. Since 1998/1999, when bots were created, >they have the ability to receive chat, and to receive whispers >adressed to them (and only those ones addressed to them), and receive >all other AW events. This is because they use the AW SDK. But bots >don't only use the AW SDK, they have their own code to handle what >they do with this. It depends on the bot maker what sort of code they >add (and they MUST add code, otherwise bots would do nothing). They >could be adding code to send the owner's password to someone, or the >whole chat to the CIA... > >First rule: use bots from trusted makers. > >Second rule: NEVER expect that people or bots will do what you want. >You have, in your own world, the right to select which people and >which bots you allow in. You do NOT have that right in other worlds. > >Whispers seem safe to me. World servers do not log them, and they do >not go thru the universe server. Telegrams are dangerous: the >universe server has an option to LOG ALL TELEGRAMS. Chat is open to >everone: it can be privately logged, sent world wide , published on >CNN, there is no way to control that. > > > > > |