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re: I wonder why nobody believes AU on the Rashaan Evans bio hack?

Posted on 7/16/14 at 7:55 am to
Posted by allin2010
Auburn
Member since Aug 2011
18159 posts
Posted on 7/16/14 at 7:55 am to
You should believe it as it is often not difficult to do. Also beside this board, who does not believe it?

There are two forms of hacking, one is to take over an entire site. The other was page hacking which is what occurred here.

You create a page such as
s://rivals.yahoo.com/Auburn/football/recruiting/rankings/2014

If you change the last number to 2013 or 2015, if the page is there but not published you may be able to see it.

Basically Auburn numbered their commitments and they believed RE would be one of them. Someone changed the number and with the speed of the internet it was out there.


Posted by StopRobot
Mobile, AL
Member since May 2013
15471 posts
Posted on 7/16/14 at 8:00 am to
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You should believe it as it is often not difficult to do. Also beside this board, who does not believe it?

There are two forms of hacking, one is to take over an entire site. The other was page hacking which is what occurred here.

You create a page such as
s://rivals.yahoo.com/Auburn/football/recruiting/rankings/2014

If you change the last number to 2013 or 2015, if the page is there but not published you may be able to see it.

Basically Auburn numbered their commitments and they believed RE would be one of them. Someone changed the number and with the speed of the internet it was out there.


That is not hacking and you cannot see an unpublished page unless you are on AUs intranet which I assume members of the media are not. If you load a page you don't want people to see to a live web server you're an idiot
Posted by JustGetItRight
Member since Jan 2012
15715 posts
Posted on 7/16/14 at 10:05 am to
quote:

There are two forms of hacking, one is to take over an entire site. The other was page hacking which is what occurred here.

You create a page such as
s://rivals.yahoo.com/Auburn/football/recruiting/rankings/2014

If you change the last number to 2013 or 2015, if the page is there but not published you may be able to see it.

Basically Auburn numbered their commitments and they believed RE would be one of them. Someone changed the number and with the speed of the internet it was out there.


I agree that you've described exactly what happened. My only issue is that is in no way a hack.

They created a page on the site. The fact that they didn't have a link to the URL doesn't mean it wasn't public. It was publicly available the minute they put it up without any security.

It is a BS violation and the frickup was done by the IT guy (instead of Athletic dept) who decided to take the lazy option to fast updating, but it was not a media hack and saying otherwise is just a plain out lie.
This post was edited on 7/16/14 at 10:06 am
Posted by observant1
Trustville
Member since Apr 2014
377 posts
Posted on 7/16/14 at 10:59 am to
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allin2010

Always bringing the Auburn Truth.




Go all in and never yield. Regardless of the truth.
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