Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Net Messaging Standards War Brewing

Author:Sidney Markowitz
Posted:7/23/1999; 12:06:58 PM
Topic:Today's scriptingNews Outline
Msg #:8697 (In response to 8680)
Prev/Next:8696 / 8698

I can imagine a valid security concern: If AOL wanted to prevent someone from writing a Trojan horse client that steals AOL passwords they could add some kind of authentication that the client is their own and untampered. That would be a plausible reason for locking out Microsoft's client, as well as others, once AOL realized the vulnerability.

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