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In early 2000 I was playing a stand alone mod for Unreal Tournament 99 called Tactical Ops. UT99 provided an IRC client right in the game and people used it to coordinate matches, when somebody from nato-ladder (North American Tactical Ops Ladder) discovered that spamming a specific character to a player in private message (or even in public channel where the player was) caused the game to crash with nothing to show in the logs.

They used it intelligently during tournament, not overusing it, just making a particular player drop at the right moment and probably abused it for sometime before it became publicly known.

I don't remember if this was an issue also present in UT99 or just TO.

I love that line:

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

I don't know much about Cryptography but this article made me want to ask this:

In his example with facebook and trump, the original handshake to get facebook's public key isn't encrypted, isn't that a problem ?

I may be totally not understanding this at all, but lets say when somebody connect to Tor if the original connection isn't encrypted and everybody know that I just connected to Tor isn't that bad even though they can't tell what I'm doing afterward ?

They get their "diverse" opinions from an echo chamber. They really believe they get diversw opinions but they are actually from people with the same agenda.