The "Aa" Token Platform Trick
Discovered By:
Hypah
Date:
Early 2000
Patched:
December 2000
Using a scanner program Hypah looked through all the various language
codes searching for any wierd responses. Using this scanner he was able
to find several language codes, one of them 1221, which would send a
message using the Aa token to a chat room. The message would come from
online host and say.
OnlineHost: has sent a message that your platform can't display
This message also appears when AOL users with Japanese accounts and
software come to English chat rooms.
AOL did not really patch this, it still works, but its usefulness as a way
to disrupt chat rooms anonymously was taken away when AOL included the
screen name of the person who sent the message in the OnlineHost response.
This Aa token language code trick led to Hypah discovering indented screen
names.
Contributed By:
O0O
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