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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- Re: Net Messaging Standards War Brewing, Mark J. Gardner, 7/23/1999; 1:33:32 PM
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