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   Message 10,837 of 12,449   
   Boggy to Ant   
   Re: A challenge to all hackers and crack   
   20 Jun 06 17:31:10   
   
   From: notachance@fake.fake   
      
   "Ant"  wrote in   
   news:z42dnXNwBY9qHA3ZnZ2dnUVZ8qadnZ2d@brightview.co.uk:   
      
   > "Auric__" wrote:   
   >   
   >> Ant wrote:   
   >>> "sad bast wan2be" wrote:   
   >>>> Staffs are going on to the site and being monitored by tescos   
   >>>> security.   
   >>>   
   >>> That's not possible if people who post to the forum decide to remain   
   >>> anonymous.   
   >>   
   >> Unless the staff is using proxies or some other misdirection, then   
   >> it's just a matter of looking at the logs. I could write a script in   
   >> a few minutes to match IPs to posts, and from there it's very easy to   
   >> get the user's info.   
   >   
   > From your other post I see you meant it would be easy if they were   
   > posting from work. I think it's unlikely that shelf stackers and till   
   > operators, etc. would have access to Internet-connected computers.   
   > More likely they would post from home accounts on dynamic IP addresses   
   > assigned to large consumer ISPs.   
   >   
   >> For that matter, what's "tescos"? I have no intention of visiting   
   >> that site to find out.   
   >   
   > Tesco is a large UK supermarket chain.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Sorry, I got into this a bit late....   
      
   Tesco are also a large UK ISP (with links to NTL) so if the employees   
   had /Tesco/ Internet accounts then it is highly likely they could be   
   traced.   
      
   HTH,   
      
   Boggy   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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