hehehe... what a cool hoax :)

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:45:33AM +0000, Jimmy Lim wrote:
> > Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla writes:
> > 
> > >
> > >On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:59:52AM +0800, Rodrigo Escaler wrote:
> > >>got this link from my email. 
> > >>
> > >>http://www.microsoft.com&[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1338825GHU_98
> > >>.asp
> > >
> > >This is NOT a microsoft site!  It's a site that's hosted at
> > >212.254.206.213.  Apparently it's a Swiss IP according to ripe's whois
> > >servers.  It's a total hoax.
> > 
> > you mean na hack na ang microsoft??? so anybody can do framing to another 
> > website ang site ng microsoft???? 
> 
> No.  Look at the above URL a little more carefully:
> 
> www.microsoft.com&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>                                 ^
>                          Note this @ sign!
> 
> The URL is really a URL to the site 212.254.206.113, not a URL to
> www.microsoft.com.  It's using a little-known quirk in the URL
> syntax; see sect. 3.2.2 of RFC 2396 for details.
> 
> It's a frequent method of doing semantic attacks.
> 
> 

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