...:: Hacking World Cup Tickets for Germany 06 ::... Australia was a late qualifier for the tournament. The ticket submission was via email. Tickets were alloc

...:: Hacking World Cup Tickets for Germany 06 ::... Australia was a late qualifier for the tournament. The ticket submission was via email. Tickets were allocated on a first email received basis after 09:00. There was a countdown webpage which advertised the time. --- Preparation * I telneted to port 25 of the destination and saw via EHLO that the mail server clock was 1 minute faster than advertised on the webpage, giving a start time advantage * I pre crafted the SMTP message into a text file. This had the sending time as 09:00:01 * Before the day I checked out how long the mail server would keep open any connections without any input (10 minutes) --- Cometh the day: * I opened up several telnet sessions to port 25 , 10 minutes before. * when the time came, I did several EHLO messages to check my session was alive * I cut'n'pasted my SMTP message into the server * I closed all my connections (other people were bouncing at this point as the server connection pool was exhausted) --- I got my tickets.