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The real life equivalent would be if a company wrote their secrets on the back of a letter they sent you in the mail, and just relied on you not looking at the
by jonluca 8y ago
The real life equivalent would be if a company wrote their secrets on the back of a letter they sent you in the mail, and just relied on you not looking at the back.
There's no security breach, or even unauthorized network request - their service is requesting this data to your machine, from within their client. I think they just aren't thinking about potential repercussions in their testing names.
- pmiller2 8y agoAaron Swartz didn't breach JSTOR's security or make any (technically) unauthorized network requests, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz