[Gllug] IP address changes

Russell Howe rhowe at siksai.co.uk
Sun Nov 26 18:47:14 UTC 2006


On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:44:05PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> There is a cookie - that is how I link elements of the session together,
> but a man-in-the-middle could steal the cookie & use it to pretend to be
> the logged in user.

A man in the middle could also act as a proxy and therefore have an
unchanging IP address :)

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Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
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