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>"Unfortunately, what had happened is someone went in through the URL and just sequentially went through every document available on the portal," she said. It'
by dgudkov 9y ago
>"Unfortunately, what had happened is someone went in through the URL and just sequentially went through every document available on the portal," she said.
It's not clear if the links to the documents with sensitive information were public or not. Yes, it's absolutely stupid to have security by obscurity, but from a legal point of view abusing someone's stupidity may look like a crime. The story, while sad, doesn't look black and white to me as CBC tries to paint it.
- consp 9y agoI'm not familiar with the Canadian legal system, but most countries have entrapment laws which forbid prosecution if there was no way for the suspect to know it was illegal and no criminal intent was involved. The "public, free, information, disclosure" words would make this a slam dunk if Canada has some of those laws.