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Date: Mon Feb 20 16:15:29 2006
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Re: User Enumeration Flaw 

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:03:15 GMT, Dave Korn said:

>   Tell DHS at once!  What would happen if Al-Qaeda could figure out that 
> there was a president in the whitehouse?

We'd still have Cheney at an undisclosed secret location.  And he should be
considered armed and dangerous.

(Of course, the reason why this usually isn't considered a major information
leak is because it discloses the presence of a *mailbox*, not of a userid
nor a user.  The lights can be on, but nobody's home - which sums up the
situation quite nicely. ;)
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