Re: Idiocy "exploit"

[BlueBoar () THIEVCO COM (Blue Boar)]

Roy Wilson wrote:
>         I was cruising a .GOV site the other day with GetRight in
> Browse mode (an enhanced FTP client, it appears), while walking a
> client through the directories he needed to traverse to find the file
> he wanted (a database).
>
>         We were getting different file counts - his Netscape would show
> 7 files, GR on my end would show 28.
>
>         After about two hours of messing around trying to find out what
> was going on, we finally found it.
>
>         He had Netscape set to the default "Mozilla@" for anon login
> password.  If I set GR to any email address other than the one I was
> using the first time around, I only saw the seven files as well.
>
>         The other 21 files were the raw data the cgi script used to
> build sorted db's for HTML display.
>
>         The email address that showed all data?
>
>                 fraud () irs gov
>
>         Being the curious person that I am, I started hitting state
> level sites as well as federal.  About a third of them showed more
> files with the fraud@ than with mozilla@.

Any idea which FTP server package this is, or what options cause this
behavior?  Care to share the name of one of the sites?

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