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A comment on GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions. Parent comment

Re:GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions by opless on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:18PM (#24984102)
Ping with embedded +++ATH worked too on some modems!

Of course you needed to have the nous to do this in the first place and a IRC server that showed users host names/ip adresses- I fear that I’m showing my age !

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Re:GitHub: Widespread Injection Vulnerabilities in Actions by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:17PM (#24986075)
IIRC it worked against Microsoft WebTV set-top boxes. Some kids got in a lot of trouble by causing a bunch of them to hang up and dial 911 or something.
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