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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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