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AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found

thedude13 writes " Infoworld is running a story about a major security hole in AOL ® Instant Messenger(TM) and how it handles away messages. AIM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via the auto-response away message mechanism. Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."

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  1. Something other than Struts? by llamalicious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey FK, long time no msg.

    Anyhow, I'm getting ready to start work on an enterprise size portal system (non Slashdot related) and if you're considering Struts old, can you give me any insight into state-of-the-art with MVC in Java...?

    I've just started getting into Struts as it looks like a great way to maintain scalability and have code/html separation, without to much of an insane learning curve.

  2. Why allways plugging FLOSS? by FedeTXF · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why does every article mentioning a piece of software have to mention a FLOSS alternative in the blurb?

  3. Proxy Servers... by barcodez · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't get Gaim to work through our company proxy servers where as Yahoo and MSN native clients do so fine. I have tried all the proxy settings available. Our proxy server is an MS ISA server... *shudder*.

    I don't use aim, nobody I know uses aim.

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