Silence on the Wire

Chapter 12. Stack Data Leaks

Yet another short story on where to find what we did not intend to send out at all

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Sometimes, all it takes to find subtle but fascinating and helpful hints about your co-Netizens and their whereabouts is some luck. At least that was the case with a fairly interesting and extremely elusive information disclosure vector that I discovered in 2003, after several weeks of a daunting hunt.

Kristjan’s Server

First things first. Several years ago, I asked a friend of mine, Kristjan, to let me use some disk space on one of his machines so that I could host a bunch of my projects on a reliable and fast system. He agreed, and soon after, I began to gradually move most of my programs and papers to their new home. Among the projects ...