full-disclosure - Re: Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability in rediff mail

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:31:21 -0500
From: "Lincoln Anderson" <ayblinkin@...il.com>
To: "'mrx'" <mrx@...pergander.org.uk>,
	<full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability
	in rediff mail

If you spit on it in just the right spot, you will have created a brick-wall
- an oft underappreciated network device that both livens the décor of any
datacenter and obviates the need for most security practices.

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of mrx
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 6:58 PM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability
in rediff mail

Rohit Patnaik wrote:
> full-censorship@...hmail.com wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:27:41 +0100 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:49:00 BST, you said:
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> would one not rather hire someone *not* well-known and *doesn't* 
>>>>       
>>>> get owned?
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Feel free to hire that guy flipping burgers at McD's to do your 
>>> security
>>> assessment.
>>>     
>>>       
>> the burger flipper would be the obvious choice, young and eager to 
>> learn.
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> The choice is obvious only as long as you ignore the fact that eager to 
> learn also means eager to make mistakes.  After all, isn't trying (and 
> failing) the most effective method of learning?
>
> --Rohit Patnaik
>   
But how does spitting on a router help to secure it?

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