You’ve never heard of an API then? This is silly. Your door analogies have no place at all. A great many websites work this way. Unless you’re injecting meta

You’ve never heard of an API then? This is silly. Your door analogies have no place at all. A great many websites work this way. Unless you’re injecting metacharacters into URLs, or requesting AAAAAAAA * 65535 followed by shellcode, changing paramter values is using HTTP exactly as designed, and a well-formed request has many possible error codes for the exact purpose of letting you know what you are allowed to access. It’s perfectly normal for people to alter URLs. The fact that people who are unfamiliar with URLs don’t do that is irrelevant, and you could say the same for any subject. Just yesterday I changed lat= and lon= to get a NOAA forecast. Is that snooping or hacking? How about when we change the integer at the end of an XKCD comic to view another one without previously confirming there is a hyperlink somewhere? At least in the Weev case, people could take his IRC logs out of context as well as argue the fact that it was plainly obvious that the server was misconfigured and he was seeing content that he should not. But getting a response when incrementing an integer, generally speaking, does not mean you are viewing something unintended for you. When you are downloading public documents, it would be entirely unreasonable to assume that the material was non-public. Also, take a step back to really think about what you are advocating. Is society better off by ruining this kid’s life? It blows my mind that someone even remotely technical can think this particular case is a good use of the justice system, or can even compare it to someone snooping around their neighborhood and trying their doors.