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tonylucas on Oct 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cos...

Exactly that, it was known as the ‘script.ini’ problem, the download directory was changed as well.

It would attempt to send to people as they joined a channel.

More info: http://www.irchelp.org/security/si.html

jondumbau on Nov 1, 2018 [–]

there was the funny magic string that would make half a channels modems disconnect too.

mickeyp on Nov 1, 2018 | [–]

Ah, yes, I remember that. I think it was because the modems didn't differentiate between the various layers in the transport stream and took anything resembling low-level modem commands to be gospel.

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