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xonya
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This morning I was looking in our database in order to solve a problem with a user registration and I accidentally noticed some users registered with unusual email addresses (temporary mail services, Russian providers and so on...).
I immediately thought about malicious users so I dug into the logs and I found that the registration requests started from an IP address belonging to our company (we have static IP addresses). My first reaction was: «OMG! Russian hackers infiltrated into our systems and started registering new users!»
So, I found the coworker owning the laptop from which the requests were sent and I went to him in order to warn him that someone violated his computer.
And he said: «Ah! Those 7 users? Yeah, I was doing some tests, I registered them. My email address was already registered so I created some new ones».
Really, man? Really? WTF

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  • 0
    Are you American?
  • 7
    @Batburger No, Italian, but everybody fear Russian hackers :D
  • 2
    @xonya always a pleasure to give a fellow italian developer a ++.

    Nice rant.
  • 0
    hehehe...
  • 1
    Thats why there should always be a staging environment.
  • 4
    I do the same rarely, problem is that "serious" mail providers have long validation trails when registering an address. Russian providers don't ask so many questions ^^
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