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xenophanes
on June 3, 2009
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How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security adviso...
i think if you get a valid login cookie, and use it, it will tell you what account you have in the top right.
mariorz
on June 3, 2009
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Well obviously, but you couldn't do a brute force attack like this to a specific account.
e1ven
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I believe the implication is that you'd have a sessionid. Effectively, the username and password rolled into one unique number, stored in the cookie.
dfranke
on June 3, 2009
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I think by 'specific account' he means 'chosen account', in which case he'd be correct without more targeted social engineering.
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