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kuru 
Detonate.net's 9mm wielding geek-hit-Goddess
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2002,17:29 |
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I was using Trillian to connect to AIM so that I wouldn't have to deal with all the ads and security holes (can we say holy fucking hack attempts, boys and girls?).
Well today I started getting disconnected with the message that I'm using 'unauthorized' software and AOL's not gonna let me connect anymore unless I go download their client.
I have news for AOL. That piece of spyware hackable shit will never grace my hard drive. I'm dumping AIM entirely as a means of communication. I just don't see opening my box up to the kind of security risks found by our friends at w00w00.com as an alternative to using Trillian. So what this means here is that anybody who has/had my AIM nick will be conducting an exercise in futility by trying to contact me that way.
I have other means of contact: e-mail, IRC, ICQ, Y! and MSN. Anybody who actually talks to me will hafta find me via one of those.
As for AOL, the pathetic piece of shit that company is, I really don't care what happens. They are a monopolistic worm that bleeds the life out of true technological and communications progress. They attempt to destroy cooperative growth by refusing to share a sandbox with the other kids, every new product they put out has more security problems and is more invasive to the user's system than the one before it, and their only goal seems to be to stifle change and growth by throwing around huge sums of money.
So, the eat-my-ass award of the day goes to......... AOL/Time Warner!
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'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost
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caseman984
Local Wannabe H4X0R
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2002,18:29 |
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Apparently, AOL seems to think they don't make enough money charging people ungodly amounts for the crappiest(and stragely, most popular) ISP in exsistance, they think they also have to get their little $.10 revenue from showing you ads for shit you could a fuck less about. Sadly, I cannot boycott their services, I have a huge group of friends on AIM (can you say 250 on buddylist?), so I have to continue to connect with AIM and Trillian. God damn greedy bastards.
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Watch what you say, say what you mean,
know what you think, believe what you feel.
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kuru
Detonate.net's 9mm wielding geek-hit-Goddess
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2002,18:40 |
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Good luck getting Trillian to work with AIM. Once they detect that you have Trillian, you'll get the 'disconnected for unauthorized software' message.
Hence, I apologize to all 170 people on my AIM contact list... but I'm not running AOL's client. Too many security holes.
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kuru
'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost
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fatalbert
ism you is, or ism you ain't mine maybe...
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2002,20:40 |
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if aol were really smart, they'd develop their own prog. that does the same thing as Trillian, but with their ads...
just on a personal note, even if they did that, I would still use Trillian...
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ASCIIMan
-- Insert Witty Title Here --
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Posted on: Feb. 16 2002,21:23 |
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Out of (mostly) spite for AOL and the evil known as AIM I registered accounts on MSN and Yahoo!. Unless AOL allows Trill again, I won't be going back to AIM (even though probably 3/4 of my buddies were AIM-only). If someone wants to contact me, they can now try my ICQ (45020657), MSN (saboetage@hotmail.com) or Yahoo! (Saboetage) accounts. If they don't like it, they can email me. BAH!
Edited by ASCIIMan on Jan. 01 1970,01:00
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solid
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Posted on: Feb. 17 2002,02:48 |
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| Quote (kuru @ 16 Feb. 2002,10:40) | | Hence, I apologize to all 170 people on my AIM contact list... but I'm not running AOL's client. Too many security holes. |
Security holes?
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RadioActive
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Posted on: Feb. 17 2002,03:05 |
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| Quote (solid @ 16 Feb. 2002,21:48) | | Quote (kuru @ 16 Feb. 2002,10:40) | | Hence, I apologize to all 170 people on my AIM contact list... but I'm not running AOL's client. Too many security holes. |
Security holes? |
AIM has more security holes then windows ME, if that's even possible. Most common and probably most dangerous are number of buffer overflows attacks. They can be hard to exploit though.
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TheTaxMan
Controversial Thug
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Posted on: Feb. 17 2002,20:28 |
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It randomly adds files to your computer without your permission as well as steals personal info off of it.
Spyware, enjoy!
/me joins kuru ( a while back..).
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veistran
We don't listen to people that don't like us.
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Posted on: Feb. 17 2002,20:48 |
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I liked how they (AOL) used it's(AIM's) own buffer overflow problems to execute code on your computer.
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Concrete battleground
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damien_s_lucifer
Emperor of Detnet
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Posted on: Feb. 18 2002,21:07 |
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Y0OU ARE ALL STOOPID. AOL IS THE BEST INTERNET EVAR!!!! YOU ARE PROBLY JUST JEALOUS BECAUSE YUO CANT AFFORD IT YOUR SO POOR YOU LIVE IN THE GUTTER. DONT EVEN THINK AVOUT FLAMING ME BACK BVCUASE IM 13 AND I WILL KICK YOU'RE ASS.
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