full-disclosure - Re: Apparently eEye's blog got p0wnd

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Message-ID: <13418.1177318849@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:49 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@...allas.edu>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Apparently eEye's blog got p0wnd

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:46:41 CDT, Paul Schmehl said:

> --On April 22, 2007 10:45:17 AM +0200 poo <skodliv@...il.com> wrote:
> > or maybe ross retard got his login info owned

> Why take the whole site down then?  All you'd have to do is disable his
> account.

Umm? Maybe for some real *basic* security reason?  For instance, doing forensics
or making *sure* that Ross was the only pwnage, and that it wasn't anything more
serious?

So tell me Paul - if *your* password got pwned, would you take the machine
down, or not? :)

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