An unusual Instant Messenger question

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (Nathan Meyers)]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:08:41PM -0500, David Kramer wrote:
> On Friday 10 January 2003 02:44 pm, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> 
> > My approach to this (which isn't pretty :-) would be to interpose a relay
> > - such as a Jabber server - through which your progeny would connect,
> > and hack that relay to take over the protocol stream to do a sign-off.
> > This isn't a trivial problem - there's some reverse engineering to be
> > pulled off, although all the necessary protocol knowledge is probably
> > embedded somewhere in Jabber code.
> >
> > This is form of man-in-the-middle attack, and will look great on your
> > hacking credentials.
> 
> ... And would almost certainly be a DMCA violation, if you care about that 
> sort of thing.

And we all do :-).

Has DMCA really ventured into protection of network protocols? I
haven't heard those initials uttered in the ongoing Microsoft/AOL IM
interoperability pissing contest.

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net