Holltwood copyright notice forms easily hacked

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
Date: May 14, 2009 8:19:53 AM EDT
To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Holltwood copyright notice forms easily hacked


http://techdirt.com/articles/20090514/0136024879.shtml

Entertainment Industry Copyright Notice Acknowledgement Forms Easily  
Hacked
from the nice-work,-baytsp dept

One of the companies that the entertainment industry hires to send out  
nastygrams to people it believes are file sharing illegally is BayTSP.  
The company tries to hunt down IP addresses and then try to notify the  
user. Apparently, a part of this process is also to include a link to  
a web form where the user can respond to the notice and tell BayTSP if  
you will comply with their infringement notice and remove the  
offending files from your computer. Except, some are noticing, that  
BayTSP's method of doing this isn't even remotely secure, so the  
response forms are available for anyone to see -- and to respond to.  
You can find your own with a little help from Google.

Even worse, you could send your own notices, pretending to be BayTSP,  
and get people to fill out the forms instead. And, on top of that,  
some have discovered that BayTSP's site has some scripting  
vulnerabilities such that you could create a fake complaint and get  
people to, say, download malware or enter credit card data. Once again  
demonstrating the high level of technical incompetence from the folks  
the RIAA and MPAA hire to piss off fans worldwide.

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090514/0136024879.shtml




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