The anti-harmon item

Jul 15 18:56 UTC 2007

When I do multiple logons, I can bypass the flood protection systems on
telegram. I'm assuming this beacause Orville Write assumes there is a one to
one mapping between the users active login session and the uid.

This is pretty trivial. The first logon starts to flood a person and right
before the flood protection kicks over, it sends some data via either shared
memory or a named pipe to my second logon. THe second logon then gets this
data and starts flooding the person while the first logon is paused.

NOw, how to fix is has sort of stumped me. In the telegram program, I know
the offending lines of code that makes is possible for me tel a person with
something like a 124 lines per telegram. I'm pretty sure I could fix that
part.

However, to correct the multiple logons is harder. I think thinking that one
could maybe have a process place a lock on the file. However, given the sharp
differences between Linux and BSD, I don't think there would be any kind of
sane and portable way to do this. Also, using some kind of lock wouldn't help
if a person has one name from one IP and another name from a different IP.