> 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 >
This is a very good point imho, I didnt even think about that o.O... So I still think that this should be discussed and not ignored. This may not be a current problem, but in the future things like that can easily happen. > 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. > > greetings, Mati >
