Re: (PM) Off Topic: Wierd URL

Stephen Zedalis (tintype@exis.net)
Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:04:24 -0500 (EST)

Be sure that you have upgraded your MS Internet Explorer to compensate for
this. Apparently, using the 32 bit number instead of the dot-quad
completely bypasses IE's concept of Internet security zones and therefore
could trust sites it shouldn't. (Unless you apply MS's patch) Yep, pretty
clever. Seems like the bad guys are always at the cutting edge of tech.

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Jon Hulett - Tech Director wrote:

>Darn spammers are getting creative!
>
>Jon

>On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Doug Ingraham wrote:
>
>> IP addresses are just 32bit numbers that happen to normally be expressed
>> in the dot quad format.

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