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>I don't know what exactly he expected us to "see later,"

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This only makes it more confusing:

> a day of unixtime + potential pids makes ~86420 potential XIDs, this is a feasible attack vector.

The number of potential XIDs isn't timestamp PLUS pid, it's timestamp TIMES pid, right?

Totaling not "~86420" but 2,160,000, right?

But where does he get "a day" from? How does he know the target wasn't booted yesterday, or a month ago?




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