[ale] OT... Security black humor...

Chris Ness mness215 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 9 06:20:27 EST 2006


On Wednesday 08 March 2006 03:02 pm, Stephen Cristol wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > The page gets the IP of the client and apparently the OS.  Then it
> > generates a GIF image unique to the visitor.
>
> It appears to identify the OS from the browser's self identification.
> Those with Firefox and the UserAgentSwitcher extension can easily see
> how it appears to users of other platforms. Either that or the attack
> installed Windows on my Linksys router. ;)
>

No its my Linsys router's IP.

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