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by twoknee 1778 days ago
He really didn't handle the explanation of the joke properly...
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el_oni 1778 days ago
Do I understand it correctly? It loops back to the origin machine so they were seeing their own files? And they thought they were seeing the files on an external machine?
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twoknee 1778 days ago
Nothing is mentioned about anyone actually trying to access the URI. I don't think their server would have used that filepath.

I imagine the plaintiff simply assumed it was legitimate without investigation, i.e. it was a successful troll.

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