On Nov 1, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In the context of groupchat rooms, most applications show a room > roster of the participants. One way to spoof nicknames is to simply > add one or more space characters at the end, because the spaces don't > show up in the interface (thus "stpeter", "stpeter " with one space at > the end, and "stpeter " with two spaces at the end would all appear > to be the same person). This seems like an obvious hole that we can > plug by disallowing trailing (and perhaps leading) spaces in > nicknames. I'll forward this message to the SIMPLE WG and XMPP WG for > their feedback, and also raise this issue during the PRECIS WG session > next week. > +1 to disallowing leading and trailing whitespace. - m&m Matt Miller < [email protected] > Cisco Systems, Inc.
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