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Re: [Cryptography] [RNG] /dev/random initialisation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sat Nov 2 19:51:01 2013

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 07:23:18 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
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James A. Donald wrote:
 >> I sent a dummy skype text that referenced a secret url on my own
 >> website, created for this test and never used before or since.
 >>
 >> Shortly thereafter, got a hit on that url.

On 2013-11-03 05:49, Jerry Leichter wrote:
 > This pattern has been reported befor; it's the result of Microsoft
 > searching for "evil" URL's

Yet sending an actual evil url in a skype message has no apparent
consequences.



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