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		e1ven on June 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security adviso... I believe the implication is that you'd have a sessionid. Effectively, the username and password rolled into one unique number, stored in the cookie.

dfranke on June 3, 2009 [–]

I think by 'specific account' he means 'chosen account', in which case he'd be correct without more targeted social engineering.

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