Post #1412306
2026-03-27 11:32 UTC
@sesivany How do you handle channel messages and specifically figuring out the sender for a channel message?
From what I can find out it's simply convention to put it into the text as a prefix and it's easy to impersonate others with this.
Any insights or learnings from building this?
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@sesivany@social.vivaldi.net 2026-03-27 13:07
@djh I handle it like other clients do: it's basically "SenderName: MessageText" and I separate the two. There isn't any protection from impersonation in public channels. It's all encrypted by a shared key, names are just prefixes. I heard they were brewing something on the firmware level regarding this. There are a lot of things in MC that basically rely on people behaving well.