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

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Message-ID: <4AAAD551.1050500@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:55:13 -0500
From: Rohit Patnaik <quanticle@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Plain Text Password Disclosure vulnerability
 in rediff mail

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 
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failing) the most effective method of learning?

--Rohit Patnaik

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