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Jul 13, 2003, 7:53pm

Imagine,

The golden rule is to be able to trust the maker of the bot. If you
have more technical knowledge, you can handle unknown bots, if you
don't, go by bots that are made by proved trusted botmakers. A bot
maker can include backdoors and all sorts of code in their bots. I
could with xelagots but I don't... it's a matter of ethics. There is
NOTHING AW can do to prevent malicious programmers to mess up things:
to log in a bot, you have to provide cit# and priv. password... if the
bot is a password stealer, you're done.

What AW can do, and I'm sure they try, is to avoid code in their own
universe and world server software that could permit this sort of
incident from happening. But if someone has the privs of someone
else, by whatever means, there is nothing AW can do to stop them doing
their dammage.

One example of what AW could do: some time ago, I had a tourist in my
world, "SleepyE" or something like that. My bot discovered this
tourist was wearing citizen privs: a tourist can not have privs, that
is normally impossible. I posted a bug report in the beta group... no
response from AW officials.

This kind of loophole should be closed, and we should be informed
about it.

Alex

[View Quote] >You guys make useing a bot sound scarry. I am one of those people who knows
>nothing aobut a bot except for how to turn it on and say go. I may never
>turn on my bot again lol
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>Imagine
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