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Reminds me on the old Commodore 64 Quantum-Link service (former version of AOL), there was a hack called 'Q-Armor' where you could get a username of all spaces,
by cromwellian 9y ago
Reminds me on the old Commodore 64 Quantum-Link service (former version of AOL), there was a hack called 'Q-Armor' where you could get a username of all spaces, and no sysops or any chat room managers could kick you, or do anything to your account.
- giarc 9y agoBecause they couldn't determine how many spaces your username was or because of some other bug?
- joebergeron 9y agoPresumably because whitespace is stripped between command arguments, so something like "KICK <USERNAME>" would be useless.
- wolco 9y agoQ-Link was great for its time.
- rasz 9y agopeople griefing in online games (hacks/aimbots) often run with nicks like ||||||||||II||I|||||||||||||II1111|||||||IIIIIIIIII||||||||||||
- donatj 9y agoMy friends AIM account back in the day was essentially this. He basically had to find you.
- sizzle 9y agoI used to use aim chat booters by a blog named 'esoteric code' program was called subterfuge. Familiar with it by any chance? I thought it was brilliant.
- alanh 9y ago(not downvoting you, but your comment makes no sense at all to me)
- marksomnian 9y agoIn the StarCraft community these are known as "barcode users". They often tend to be professional players on another account, to ensure that they aren't recognised and their opponents can't learn their playstyle.
- imsofuture 9y agoFor some time you could steal AOL usernames by registering i.e. 'obar' or 'oobar', and using client side hacks could switch the registration to the already registered username 'foobar' which would then belong to you. This only worked if 'obar' or 'oobar' was unregistered, but it was a pretty nifty way to steal single word usernames, and speaks to some strange validation/truncation somewhere in the code.