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Originally Posted by billywatson
"Hacking" AIM is a joke -- there's nothing TO hack: there's been 4 or 5 passwords that EVERYone has used to access their database for years, in order to skip the $200 monthly access fee AIM charges.
YEARS.
No IP protection on their database -- nothing. If I'm not mistaken, they weren't really on secure servers, either.
AIM has, over the last month or two, restricted access to their information, but I think it's too little, too late.  |
"Hacking" is probably a bad worse to use, I'll give you that. But you hit the nail on the head with what you just said. The entire system was poorly put together, poorly thought out, and repeatedly abused by the entire industry to save $200 a month, per user.