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People have been found guilty of changing a URL by incrementing the client number. Then when the police infects a computer with a targetted worm, we're told it'
by tajen 10y ago
People have been found guilty of changing a URL by incrementing the client number. Then when the police infects a computer with a targetted worm, we're told it's "peering through open windows"...
- jdc 10y agoWho was convicted in the former case?
- beardog 10y agoWeev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
- daveloyall 10y agoSeriously? I have taught people to do that. Not to access information they aren't authorized to have, simply because it's faster than filling out the web form...
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoIt was eventually overturned on appeal, but not after a year or two in prison and great financial ruin.
- beardog 10y agoThe issue was mainly that he didn't responsibly disclose the exploit.
- s_q_b 10y agoWeev's conviction was overturned based on venue, if I recall.
- extra88 10y agoWasn't something that basic what Weev was convicted for doing to AT&T?