[OpenVerse] bugs?

[Vito Caputo <swivel@gnugeneration.com>]

im lazy and didnt feel like typing this up twice, heres a copy/paste of a
convo i had with sketch today while i was thinking about potential attacks
on openverse servers/clients.

<swivel> you could be really annoying consistently by having a fast connect,
          and a script simply connecting with same name avatar images as
          everyone in the channel but filling the gif's with random data of
          random length
<Sketch> heh, true
<swivel> possibly flood the server depending on how many users are connected
<Sketch> mail cruise :)
<swivel> since it would be telling everyone to upload their images
<Sketch> only when they reconnect
<Sketch> or change avatars
<swivel> what happens if one person is connected with an image of n size, and
          its being uploaded, then i connect with a same named image, but of x
          size before their image is completely uploaded and saved?!
<swivel> now we get into the atomic file creation problem with the multiple
          clients
<Sketch> uhh..fusion? ;)

anyone have any comments?

- Vito Caputo
  swivel@gnugeneration.com
  GNU Generation
  www.gnugeneration.com
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