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Brad Beyenhof wrote:
> On 10/30/2007 05:28 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
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>> Brad Beyenhof wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2007 04:56 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
>>>> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>>>>> http://www.decenturl.com/132.239.180.101/tubgirl
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you know about that one? Then click. Were you right?
>>>> I know that it points to an IP address rather than a named host, which
>>>> means I've got zero reason to trust it.
>>> Would you trust it if you used Reverse DNS to find out that the IP
>>> resolves to cw-portal.ucsd.edu?
>>
>> Not really, because then my next question would be how "tubgirl" ended
>> up being in the title an HTTP target on UCSD's portal. The possible
>> answers aren't super pleasing. The best I could hope for is a blog or
>> news article on "tubgirl", and that would seem highly unlikely to be on
>> the main portal for USCD. Far more likely that some student is having
>> some fun at someone else's expense.
> 
> Well, at decenturl.com you can add in your own custom title. It only
> defaults to the page's <title> if you don't manually enter anything.

Ah, I missed that. Okay, so you trust the title as much as you trust the
sender then, not the host. Hmmm... I wonder if that makes my
rd.yahoo.com example exploitable.

- --Chris
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