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Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sat Dec 6 02:18:54 GMT 2003


On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 11:00:35 +1300, Nick FitzGerald <nick at virus-l.demon.co.uk>  said:

> First, some genius (or committee thereof) decided that putting 
> "userinfo" data into URLs would be a good idea.  This was decided 
> despite it generally being agreed -- as the URL RFC authors note _in 
> the RFC_ -- to be a bad thing from a security perspective...

I'm sure the guys at 61.252.126.191 don't give a flying fornicate in a rolling
donut about how it's a bad thing from a security perspective, seeing how the
PTR for that IP is somewhere in KRNIC.NET controlled space.

Or are we now holding scammers to a higher standard of security than the
actual site admins? :)
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