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Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:18:34 -0700
Nevin Pratt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nevin@bountifulbaby.com"><nevin@bountifulbaby.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">What are these guys trying to accomplish by doing this?
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Gaining access to a valuable resource. I've seen php-based sites
allowing admin access to folks having admin access on remote machines
totally unrelated to the one they "hacked".
My guess would be that they harvested the referrer logs of some
site and are just blindly trying for access. It does not cost them
anything.
s.
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This sounds very believable. I appreciate the insight. To me this is
the #1 theory so far.<br>
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Nevin<br>
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