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> if you happen to find someone's house with an unlocked front door, that does not give you permission to go looking around inside. But in this case you are as
by randomdata 9y ago
> if you happen to find someone's house with an unlocked front door, that does not give you permission to go looking around inside.
But in this case you are asking the server for permission to come in. Unlike a lock, a server has situational awareness to decide if it says yes or no. We even call it a server, à la servant. If the maid acting as an agent for the homeowner at this hypothetical house invited you in, against the wishes of the homeowner, are you still breaking the law?
- DougWebb 9y agoLike I said, someone who does a poor job securing their content, but who are not exposing it directly via publicly-exposed links, are not granting public access. Your example is more akin to the maid wandering off leaving the front door open. That's not an invite to come in, that's a poor choice of maid.
- randomdata 9y agoI respectfully disagree. We don't use terms like 'request' and 'server' because the mechanism is akin to a door wide open. We can agree that a maid that lets the wrong people in is a poor choice of made, but the maid is the one responding to the request. A door/lock does not deal with requests at all.
- jklein11 9y agoIn this scenario though the maid is not choosing to wonder off, the homeowner is telling the maid to leave the front door open. To extend this analogy a little bit, lets say that the homeowner told the maid that they can "give the old tv, the toaster or any other item in the garage to anyone who asks." A stranger comes and asks the maid for the golf clubs in the garage that the homeowner forgot about. In this case, the homeowner did not explicitly expose the golf clubs to the public, but gave permission to the maid to give them out. Did the homeowner not grant public access to the golf clubs?