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There's somebody who can build a custom browser but can't figure out how to change the user agent string?


They're called "script kiddies" and the trick is: they don't build the browser, they download a kit someone else built that has a user agent in it and use it for whatever purpose they intend to.

I went to school at a place that had a policy of soft-blocking network access for any machine that a portscan detected had TCP or UDP 12345 opened, because Back Orifice defaults to that port and people who built trojan horses to allow remote access didn't change the default. It caught a reasonable number of owned machines every year.

Don't overestimate criminals; if most were good at being criminals, they could be successful in society without having to break the law. ;)




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