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laurent123456 on April 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OVH acknowledges back office security issue

"script execution cache" - perhaps something like APC that would cache the PHP opcodes and make a random function less random.

dan1234 on April 30, 2013 [–]

Perhaps something they were using to seed the random number generator was being cached, leading to the same set of "random" numbers?

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