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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (849)11/26/1998 11:31:00 PM
From: Steven Bowen  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 110645
 
"Thanks for the neat trick on password bypass"

Something to think about if you use your password that way;

techstocks.com

People should also be aware that when they click on a link in a message, that site can see their username and password. It is recorded in their logs as user from: myname:mypassword@talk.techstocks.com

I.E. I could set up a web site and then post it here. Anybody that clicks on the link with the above setup would be giving me their username and password.

NOTE: This only applies if you have your username and password in the URL.