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Old 01-15-2004, 11:24 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Any URL containing a "@" that seems dubious, probably is. you'll notice that the URL ends with "@bavnb50fq.Da.ru/?"

In most cases, any text up to and including the @ can be ignored. This technique has been used notably in the past to make hoax CNN pages.

http://www.cnn.com@209.50.251.11/tfp...threadid=41551

Suddenly, you click a link that looks like CNN, and you're here at TFP. Now what if, instead of linking to TFP, I linked to my personal server with a hoax article made on a CNN template. Email it to a few people, they send it to a few people, it hits teh blogs, and two days later, the whole country "knows" about whatever I want them to know.

A piece of advice: if anyone ever sends you a CNN link with a @ redirect to an IP address (I'm not posting the IP here) followed by hello.jpg, do not click it, it's goatse.
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