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The most important thing is to make sure you use an encrypted email auth protocol. I was in a tipping comp years ago. At this workplace I had already warned th
by protocolture 2y ago
The most important thing is to make sure you use an encrypted email auth protocol.
I was in a tipping comp years ago. At this workplace I had already warned the management against insecure email protocols but they wouldnt listen.
Anyway, came time for the company footy tipping comp.
Once I worked out which manager was running it, I used their plaintext password against their admin login to the tipping website. Worked straight up.
Every week I would make my tips, then after the games had been run but before Monday rolled around, I would use the admin access to change my tips.
Didnt try and hide it just went 100% victory every week.
The admin of the comp would even go out of his way to try and satisfy the very angry football fans that it wasnt run on company systems so theres no way that I could find my way in to change things.
In the end I fessed up, I couldnt get them to change the email system, but he apparently proactively took the password post it note off of his monitor which was nice.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoThis was something of a surreal read. I assume "comp" is short for "competition". But what is "tipping"? What's a "tip"?
- actionfromafar 2y agoBetting.
- chrisan 2y agoJust out of curiosity, which country(s?) refer to that as tipping?
- looperhacks 2y agoIn German, "tippen" is a possible translation of "to guess". There's a well-known tradition of friendly betting on football matches with colleagues or friends (sometimes with money on the line, often not). These are called "Tippspiel" or "betting games".
- actionfromafar 2y agohttps://idiomorigins.org/origin/tip https://idiomorigins.org/origin/tip In English too - think "betting tip".
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> In English too - think "betting tip". A betting tip is when someone gives you information relevant to a bet. That is a sense that definitely exists in English, but obviously there is no such thing as a "tipping competition" in this sense.
- ellen364 2y agoI didn’t 100% follow this story. Sounds like you knew the manager’s password and used it to log into a website. Where did the email protocols come into it?
- protocolture 2y agoPulled it out of a packet capture