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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by flingo on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:21PM (#22260471)
What're you implying? That someone would change their hostname to take over someone else's site?
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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by gmiller123456 on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:29PM (#22273618)
Not really "taking over", more like password harvesting. You just report a hostname at login that you don't own, the maintainer will update the hosts file to point to your system. People will gladly connect to your system and type in their usernames and passwords.
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Re:Before the DNS: how yours truly upstaged the NIC's offici... by Ayesh on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:48AM (#22263983)
Yes.
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