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Bug 528886

Summary: willikins: Reading notes of a offline user.
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure Reporter: Польская Водка <gentoo-bugzilla>
Component: OtherAssignee: Gentoo Infrastructure <infra-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Польская Водка 2014-11-11 00:43:12 UTC
This example is very informative:

00:29 -!- xiaomiao is now known as bonsaikitten
00:29 <+bonsaikitten> meow.
00:29 <+willikins> bonsaikitten, you have notes! [00:26] <wiktor_b> I got it working.
00:29 -!- bonsaikitten is now known as xiaomiao

FreeNode allows you to spend 30 seconds under the nick of any registered user, if its offline.
Willikins seem not to check whether the user is logged in.

Even if !note is not a feature used to transport private info, you can still use it to prevent the receiving side from getting the note.
Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2014-11-23 11:34:40 UTC
You probably shouldn't rely on an IRC bot to convey important messages, and noone in an official capacity does so to my knowledge.

We use the plain note functionality from rbot, willikins' base code.
So, if you want this fixed, contact upstream; we don't have the resources for this.