How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous. • Hacker News Board

Re: How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous.

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Sat, Jun 19, 2010, 10:52 PM UTC

a4agarwal wrote: post #82

Hey guys. I'm the cofounder of Posterous. Yes, someone did figure out how to post to Dustin's site today. This security hole is now fixed. We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there was a specific way that Robin Duckett's email server responded that caused us to flag it as a false negative for spoofing. For the vast majority of users who use gmail, hotmail or…

Note that it is perfectly possible to safely use email as authentication. It is not trivial. I've replied about this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1441914

Re: How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous.

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Post by xinsight » Thu, Jun 24, 2010, 4:10 PM UTC

jbrennan wrote: post #117

xinsight wrote: post #84

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You can't tolerate glutin and you've never tried buckwheat pancakes? I find them superior to normal wheat pancakes in every way.

Don't judge me.

Sorry, my tone might have been off. What I meant was: Buckwheat pancakes don't have glutin and are amazing. If you don't know about them, give 'em a try!

Re: How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis's Posterous.

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Post by 3pt14159 » Thu, Jul 08, 2010, 3:43 AM UTC

jonah wrote: post #113

3pt14159 wrote: post #59

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Not in some parts of Canada. Trespass is only once you've told someone to leave (or have a sign saying "no trespassing). Otherwise you are free to walk on anyone's property (this is Canada wide) and sometimes enter their house (this is specific to certain areas). If a door is locked then obviously you arn't allowed in, but in the North you are granted "implicit" permission to go into someone's house if you would be i…

That's a very sane law. Have you heard of any problems with it in practice?

Never. I've only heard of someone I know (a family member) using it once though. She left more than enough money and a note in the fridge and was very grateful she didn't have to continue driving in whiteout conditions.