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That’s career suicide and it likely would come with let’s make an example out of you sentencing (depending where lived).

• mysterypie 8y ago
  The researcher was using Shodan to probe the entire range of IP addresses allocated in the USA. He found an unprotected site and queried it knowing it should not have been accessible. He queried the personal info on specific people that WIRED asked him about. He revealed data to a third party ("a sample of the data Troia shared [with WIRED]"). An argument could be made that every step above was illegal. I don't agree with that argument, but surely you've heard of (many) cases where people have been prosecuted for things like that. My point is that he's already taking risks.
  • smsm42 8y ago
    There's still difference between "probing a couple of data points to establish a breach" and "downloading the thing wholesale and spilling it out". The first can be reasonably argued as legit research - not always successfully, true, there is a lot of overzealous prosecution, but at least there's a case. The second is clearly either premeditated malice or reckless disregard for the harm to others - you'd have no defense for it.
  • andai 8y ago
    Then he should have used Tor.
  • intralizee 8y ago
    That argument you propose isn't popular opinion though. He is taking risks if people in power choose to push an agenda but it's totally different in risk if he goes the other path of illustrating something to average joe.