OpenID homesite authorization spoofed

Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) eddy_nigg at startcom.org
Mon Oct 23 04:56:17 UTC 2006


David Nicol wrote:
> >From reading this thread I understand that by using dns spoofing it
> is possible -- If I can write to your /etc/hosts file it is possible
Since you can write to your own hosts file, and this is all what it
takes for spoofing, I suggest, that the issue is a little bit more than
serious ;-)
> That certainly isn't anything to catastrophize about in my opinion.
>   
All the other details were forwarded to the relevant persons...

Cheers!

-- 
Regards
 
Signer:      Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
Phone:       +1.213.341.0390
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