[gopher] Capability files are dangerous

[Nick Matavka]

Well, in 1995, finger meant something other than digitally stimulating
a female... it meant finding out someone's name and address from their
e-mail.

On 15 May 2012 02:15, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
> On May 15, 2012, at 9:03 , Nick Matavka wrote:
>
>>>  You can find, in a capability file, private informations provided
>>> by its unadvised administrator like the geographical position of its
>>> server.
>>
>> Yeah, so what?  I'm British.  You're a Frog.  She's Belgian.  He's
>> Finnish.  There's five million people in Finland. Here's an IP
>> address.  Go point out Tapio Korhonen, please.
>
> Funny side-comment; back when gopher was relevant, you *could* actually pinpoint someone by their IP address. Just had do do an identd lookup.... These days it's pretty much impossible.
>
>
> - Kim
>
>
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