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Re:OVH acknowledges back office security issue by laurent123456 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @12:52PM (#5633331)
"script execution cache" - perhaps something like APC that would cache the PHP opcodes and make a random function less random.
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Re:OVH acknowledges back office security issue by dan1234 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:43PM (#5633736)
Perhaps something they were using to seed the random number generator was being cached, leading to the same set of "random" numbers?
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