Security
Voodoo Chat uses two methods of security. The first is encryption. The second is the use of system hashes.
Voodoo's method of encryption encrypts all transfers of data from the program to increase privacy and deter hackers. So far, according to their website, "none have, and plenty have tried."
Voodoo's client generates a set of system hashes from pieces of serial numbers within the hardware of the users computer. These are gathered as the program starts and are transmitted when the user attempts to log in. The users hashes are checked against the global hash ban list on "The King", then checked against the banned hash list on the specific server they're logging on to. If their system hash matches either ban list, the user is barred from the service.
Read more about this topic: Voodoo Chat
Famous quotes containing the word security:
“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Those words freedom and opportunity do not mean a license to climb upwards by pushing other people down. Any paternalistic system that tries to provide for security for everyone from above only calls for an impossible task and a regimentation utterly uncongenial to the spirit of our people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)