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Re: [Full-Disclosure] Teen hacker controls ebay

From: Marcin Owsiany (marcinowsiany.pl)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 03:02:20 CDT

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:57:27PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Gaurang Pandya:
>
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18288 Says, a teen
> > hacker "he had managed to become the new owner of
> > eBay.de." can any one tell me what do they mean by
> > this..did he actually changed ip address at DNS or its
> > DNS Cache poisioning or something else??
>
> The delegation was changed because Ebay's registrar for the .DE zone,
> TUCOWS, didn't object when asked by DENIC whether the change was
> alright.

The "asking" was actually two programs "talking", right? Or did they
really called one another on the phone (i.e. human to human)?

Marcin
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