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  • Cheating - a lot of threats ceom come from insiders who... probably made the tables!
  • Experience - when you've been in the business for a while you tend to notice trends. users isn't there? How about user, user_tbl or users_tbl? Which ties into:
  • Educated Guesswork
  • And finally, more cheating - if the program is open source (wordpress, phpbb) or generally common (vbulletin) everything's available or documented.
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  • Cheating - a lot of threats ceom from insiders who... probably made the tables!
  • Experience - when you've been in the business for a while you tend to notice trends. users isn't there? How about user, user_tbl or users_tbl? Which ties into:
  • Educated Guesswork
  • And finally, more cheating - if the program is open source (wordpress, phpbb) or generally common (vbulletin) everything's available or documented.