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One is reminded of the whole $cientology vs the internet shambles, at one point someone was deposed by their lawyers trying to find out who was running that "lo
by Taniwha 5y ago
One is reminded of the whole $cientology vs the internet shambles, at one point someone was deposed by their lawyers trying to find out who was running that "localhost" server because it had all their files on it ..... these are the same people who were trying to find out the identity of Major Domo, because he seemed to be a big wig in the whole internet cabal who were trying to take $cientology down
- TOMDM 5y agoIf anyone's curious, there's previous discussion about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891
- twoknee 5y agoHe really didn't handle the explanation of the joke properly...
- el_oni 5y agoDo 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?
- twoknee 5y agoNothing 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.
- spiritplumber 5y agounrelated but i love your kerbal space program stuff!
- Taniwha 5y agoA different "taniwha" I'm afraid - I've been using this handle on-line since the mid 80s ....
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- bryanrasmussen 5y agoIn 1999 I went for a class at a company who was trying to sell an XML database, there was a problem in the class when it turned out that someone in Germany on their corporate network had named their computer 'localhost'.