At 11:00 PM 6/10/98 +0200, a remailer user forwarded a message From: Bachrach <bachrach@netreach.net> about a major security backdoor in ICKill, a utility that apparently augments or hangs around ICQ - it's a little-documented feature designed into the system rather than a bug or unexpected behaviour. More information is at
http://members.tripod.com/~hakz/ICQ/index.html ... My last question is this: if one person has backdoors into thousands of computer systems, doesn't that pose some sort of risk to the interent community as a whole? There's one person who's been saying that I should notify the FBI about this. As you can see decided to start here first.
Don't tell the FBI - they'll just want to use it themselves. :-! Is there some way to locate and reach ICKill users directly? Do they show up on ICQ in some useful manner? (I don't use either of the products....) Directly notifying them could help the problem, or at least generate a number of emails to the author who put the feature in there. Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639