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Re: Teen hacker controls ebay
From: Über GuidoZ <uberguidoz () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:24:03 -0400
I believe it was done through email. DENIC received the request to change the DNS, then emailed Tucows to see if it was ok to make the changes. By default, the answer is yes. So, since no one responded saying "Hell no! Don't do that", the changes were made. Personally, I can't comprehend how the default for something like that would be "Yes", as it's easy to have email get lost, stopped as spam, overlooked, etc. The default answer should be No, which you have to change by an email. (Not that it's difficult to spoof an email address... hence why DNS changes and such should NEVER be done through email.) Password it. At least that will slow the bored teenagers like this one... who knows, they may move on to someone else. -- Peace. ~G On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 10:02:20 +0200, Marcin Owsiany <marcin () owsiany pl> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:57:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:* Gaurang Pandya:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen hacker "he had managed to become the new owner of eBay.de." can any one tell me what do they mean by this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its DNS Cache poisioning or something else??The delegation was changed because Ebay's registrar for the .DE zone, TUCOWS, didn't object when asked by DENIC whether the change was alright.The "asking" was actually two programs "talking", right? Or did they really called one another on the phone (i.e. human to human)? Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <marcin () owsiany pl> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 "Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail." -- Unknown
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