Re: Fwd: [precis] spaces at end of nickname
Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Nov 2012 16:10:19 +0100
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On Nov 1, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Ben Campbell wrote: > +1. Should we generalize this to leading and trailing white space? > I think so. Spaces are not perceived depending on where you align the text in a user interface. > On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Feedback appreciated. >> >> >> - -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [precis] spaces at end of nickname >> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:41:55 -0600 >> From: Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> >> 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. >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> precis mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/precis >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlCSjvUACgkQNL8k5A2w/vzbFQCeM1OGQDTI/bdS6oneRfF7+tH3 >> RToAn2Ou9gA+mVKbnjKTv8YTyhKlcDUy >> =b45p >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Simple mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple >> > > _______________________________________________ > Simple mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple -- Saúl Ibarra Corretgé AG Projects