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weaken security :lol:

as odd as that sounds esp from me.. you don't know me but i worked in network security for over 10 years so it just sounds odd saying that.

so yea, i'm trying to create a simple backdoor to a specific forums content. the general discussion is set for guests to view threads but not the content. you know, tease them but make them join or login to view the actual content. pretty standard action.

the problem is that i also want to be able to submit content to bookmarks, rss feeders and other stuff w/o having to make it viewable by public. we thought that we can make that forum specific by passing something like && forum==5 && bd=98.

now we don't really care if a guest figures out that they can simply adds ?forum=5&bd=98 to the url or something like that to view the content of general discussion without logging in. more power to um if they figure that out but it'll still have the desired affect of enticing the average user to join or login while still being able to use rss feeders by adding that to the url.

does that make sense?