On 12/10/09 12:19 PM, Mathias Ertl wrote: > Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> That said, there is a minor security concern here. MUC rooms and PubSub >> nodes could garbage-collect owners and admins/publishers, just as core >> XMPP services do. This is another reason to put such entities in the >> user's roster. > > It wouldn't however be the only one. What happens if, say, some other > [email protected] posts a lot of warez (or anything illegal for > that matter... child porn?) into a forum and then also posts his JID for > some reason. Then years later I register that same ID (works, because > the old one has been deleted). Then I apply for a Job somewhere and > someone googles my name... shit just happened :-P > > Come to think of it, the same would happen if that other guy still uses > that ID... hmm, maybe its not so much a problem.
It can happen. Sometimes I receive a request to delete from the archives at http://logs.jabber.org/ some chatroom messages that someone sent years ago. However, such events are quite rare. I don't see that this is any more dangerous than, say, expired domain names. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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