Here's how it works.

Journo: "Are you a security expert?"
Village idiot: "Yes"

Thus, the village idiot is now a securoty expert.

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Robert Slade wrote:

> Apparently, the intruders who breached Citibank tried putting different 
> "account numbers into a string of text located in the browser’s address bar."
> 
> http://nyti.ms/lNpNP3
> 
> Boy, account numbers in the URL.  Now who could have guessed that bad guys 
> would have tried messing with that?  "The method is seemingly simple, but the 
> fact that the thieves knew to focus on this particular vulnerability marks 
> the Citigroup attack as especially ingenious, security experts said."
> 
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