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by ivanhoe 3644 days ago
how do you know that they didn't disable logs for this url?
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It is far safer not to do it in the first place. I can easily see a new sys admin coming in and wondering where all the logs are for a url and enabling it.

Or they send their logs to an analytics firm. The firm says innocently enough "it doesn't look like we are getting all the logs" and then it is turned on.

There's a lot of ways a policy can be circumvented just because people were trying to do their jobs and didn't know better. Also it is highly unlikely that they have another process to confirm that they aren't logging that url

Because (a) it's very unlikely given the use of POST elsewhere that they even realised this was using GET, and (b) other services can log URLs, such as your browser's history. By default, it may not matter, but perhaps of extensions get involved...

It's true, this isn't a straightforward vulnerability but it doesn't seem to be well-considered given the inconsistent use of both GET and POST for the same terrifying call.

How do you know that they did? It's up to eBay to state that they changed to a non-default setup, not on us to assume so without asking.